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Efrat (Hebrew: אפרת), or officially Efrata (Hebrew: אֶפְרָתָה), is an Israeli settlement in Judea (southern West Bank), located south of Jerusalem, between Bethlehem and Hebron. Efrat was established in 1980, and contained 8,000 residents at the end of 2007 according to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Although it is geographically located within Gush Etzion (the Etzion Bloc of Jewish settlements), Efrat is a local council independent from the Gush Etzion Regional Council.
Efrat's population is mostly religious Zionist, and includes many Orthodox Jews who have made aliyah from the United States. The official rabbi of Efrat is Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, an alumnus of Yeshiva University and a disciple of the late Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. Rabbi Riskin was formerly the founding rabbi of the Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan. In Israel, he has also founded a network of high schools and colleges that combine modern secular studies with intense study of Torah.
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