The number of residents of Bnei Brak has passed 200,000, according to the Ministry of the Interior's Population Registry Bureau.
The exact number is 200,162, up 2,249 in the past half year. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, the average family size in the predominantly haredi-religious Tel Aviv suburb is 4.8, the highest among the large and medium-sized cities in Israel. Due to the natural growth, the number of council members in the city will increase from the current 25 to 27.