Located near Shoham and the Judean Foothills, around five kilometres north-east of Ben Gurion International Airport and covering 2,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council.

[1] Prior to 1948, Bareket was the site of the Palestinian Arab village of al-Tira (Tirat Dandan).

It belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west.

[3] On the same day, Operation Danny headquarters ordered the Yiftach Brigade to blow up most of Innaba and al-Tira, leaving only houses enough for a small garrison.

[4][5] The village of Bareket was established in 1952 by members of Hapoel HaMizrachi who had immigrated from Habban District in south-east Yemen.