Bene-berak

Bene-berak ("sons of lightning") was a town in the tribal inheritance of Dan in the coastal plain (Joshua 19:45): "And Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon." The town lay in the Aijalon-Sharon coastal corridor between Joppa and the Philistine plain. After the Babylonian exile, Bene-berak became famous in the rabbinic period as the home of Rabbi Akiva, one of the most influential figures in Jewish history. The site is identified with the modern Israeli city of Bnei Brak just east of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, where the Tel Bene-berak preserves Iron Age occupation layers.