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The tiring task of repairing Gaza's tattered banknotes

With a pot of glue, a blade and a keen eye, Manal al-Saadani repairs tattered banknotes -- a necessity in the Gaza Strip, ...
The Palestinian Information Center

For one shekel: Manal restores Gaza’s torn banknotes to feed her children

Manal Al-Saadani has turned a portable table that she carries with her into a mobile workshop for repairing the worn and torn ...
The Forward

Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi: Don’t Look At 50-Shekel Bill Showing Intermarried Man

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A prominent haredi Orthodox Sephardic rabbi in Israel ruled that religious people should not look at the 50-shekel banknote because the poet featured on its front was married to a ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

That 50-shekel bill with the intermarried poet’s picture? Don’t look at it, an Israeli rabbi rules.

Shaul Tchernichovsky was a renowned Hebrew poet who was married to a non-Jewish Russian woman. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A prominent haredi Orthodox Sephardi rabbi in Israel ruled that religious people should ...
The Forward

New on 50-Shekel Bill: Bard of Zionist Humanism

The Bank of Israel, the Jewish state’s central bank (equivalent to the Fed), has rolled out the design for its new 50 shekel note, and the face on the front is of someone you wouldn’t particularly ...
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Rejecting Sa’ar’s request, Bank of Israel says it won’t cancel 200 shekel note

Responding to Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s request that it take the 200-shekel note out of circulation to cripple Hamas’s finances, the Bank of Israel says it has no plans to do so. “The governor ...