This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Barkan (Hebrew: בַּרְקָן) is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank, about 8 km west of the Palestinian city of Salfit, under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council.

[2] Founded in June 1981 by secular Israelis from the Beitar and Herut movements, Barkan is part of a chain of settlements built along the Trans-Samaria Highway, and adjacent to the Barkan Industrial Park.

The park, established in 1982, has 120 businesses and factories manufacturing plastics, metal-work, food, textile, and more.

[3] According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from two Palestinian villages in order to construct Barkan: 167 dunams from Qarawat Bani Hassan,[4] and 353 dunams from Sarta.

[6] An archeological site east of the town contains remnants of an Israelite settlement during the time of the first and second temples.