I was about to give her a shekel when something about her expression made me look again, and my hand hesitated in embarrassment. |
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The minimum that one can give to fulfill this commandment is one-third of a shekel per year. |
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Growth has ground to a halt, unemployment has shot up, and the shekel has dropped in value. |
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Foreign investment has fallen by two thirds and revenues from tourism have halved, undermining Israel's currency, the shekel. |
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With the introduction of the shekel on February 24, 1980, a series of new agora coins was put into circulation. |
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After three years of little or no inflation, consumer prices increased by 6.3 percent in the first six months of the year on the back of a sharp depreciation of the shekel. |
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The shekel touched an 18-month high against the dollar. In this section Overview Oil reserves Economy Financial markets Reprints. |
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Other emerging market currencies have suffered comparably more than the shekel as result of the ongoing forced global deleveraging process. |
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Exporters would presumably like that, since it will lead to a devaluation of the shekel. |
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The shekel, under an exchange-rate policy introduced in 1991, is rock hard so hard, in fact, that it is giving the government fits. The shekel's value is set against a basket of foreign currencies. |
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