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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.
Growth has ground to a halt, unemployment has shot up, and the shekel has dropped in value.
Exporters would presumably like that, since it will lead to a devaluation of the shekel.
They've got all their own money back, and all of ourn but a shekel or two besides.
The minimum that one can give to fulfill this commandment is one-third of a shekel per year.
With the introduction of the shekel on February 24, 1980, a series of new agora coins was put into circulation.

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