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| Bene Beraq |
or Bene Berak (both: b ´n b´r k) (KEY) , town (1994 pop. 127,100), central Israel, near Tel Aviv. Famous for its academy under Rabbi Akiba’s direction, it had six Talmudic academies by the 1990s. It is a suburb of Tel Aviv; its population is predominantly Orthodox Jewish. |
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