Barkan (Hebrew: ברקן), is a Jewish town in western Shomron, about 25 km east of Tel Aviv, under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council.
Founded in June 1981 by non-religious Israelis from the Beitar and Herut movements, the yishuv is part of a chain of Jewish towns built along the Trans-Samaria #5 Highway, and adjacent to the Barkan Industrial Park in which Israelis and Palestinians work side by side in dozens of factories.
The original name of the town was Beit Abba after Abba Achimeir who was one of the leaders of the Lehi.
Barkan was named after the archaeological site of Burak, east of the town, which is the remnant of an Israelite settlement during the time of the first and second temples.
Barkan's population was approximately 1,200 at the end of 2004 (according to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics), in over 380 families.
