brak
1 Britishadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of brak1
C19: Afrikaans
Origin of brak2
C20: from Afrikaans, literally: setter
Example Sentences
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Footage from the city of Bnei Brak showed the women running through streets strewn with rubbish and overturned bins as police officers formed a protective barrier.
From BBC
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews had taken to the streets of Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh and Bnei Brak on Tuesday to protest the planned post-mortems.
From Barron's
Support for extending the draft is also coming from religious Jews outside the Haredi community, like Dorit Barak, who lives near the yeshiva in Bnei Brak and points to non-Haredi religious Jews who do serve in the military while also studying Torah.
From BBC
Ms Barak runs a small memorial in Bnei Brak to local soldiers, both religious and secular, who were killed in battle during Israel's wars.
From BBC
But the changes blowing through Israel have not yet breached the walls of the Kisse Rahamim yeshiva - or Jewish seminary - in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox city on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
From BBC
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