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What is a shekel?

What is a shekel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
  2. (informal) money.
  3. (slang, often antisemitic) money owned or distributed as bribes by the Jewish elite
  4. An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.
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Other emerging market currencies have suffered comparably more than the shekel as result of the ongoing forced global deleveraging process.
The payment of the shekel gives the right of vote for the congress.
Growth has ground to a halt, unemployment has shot up, and the shekel has dropped in value.
I was about to give her a shekel when something about her expression made me look again, and my hand hesitated in embarrassment.
With the introduction of the shekel on February 24, 1980, a series of new agora coins was put into circulation.
The minimum that one can give to fulfill this commandment is one-third of a shekel per year.

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