Efrat, or officially Efrata,'s 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's geographically located within Gush Etzion (the Etzion Bloc of Jewish settlements), Efrat's a local council independent from the Gush Etzion Regional Council. Efrat's population's mostly religious Zionist, and… (More on Efrat)