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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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The minimum that one can give to fulfill this commandment is one-third of a shekel per year.
Exporters would presumably like that, since it will lead to a devaluation of the shekel.
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 shekel touched an 18-month high against the dollar. In this section Overview Oil reserves Economy Financial markets Reprints.
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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