Bareket


Bareket is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah around five kilometres north-east of Ben Gurion International Airport and covering 2,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In it had a population of.

History

The village was established in 1952 by members of Hapoel HaMizrachi who had immigrated from Habban District in south-east Yemen. It was initially named Kfar Halutzim and then Tirat Yehuda Bet, before adopting its current name. Like other villages nearby as Nofekh, Shoham, Leshem and Ahlama nearby, the name relates to one of the 12 stones in the Hoshen, the sacred breastplate worn by a Jewish high priest.
It is located on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Tira.