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1/2 New Sheqel Hanukkah - Iraqi Lamp
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#390 |
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| Obverse script | Hebrew, Latin, Arabic |
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| Mintage | 5763 (2003) - התשס`ד - 3,000 |
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Israel's annual Hanukkah coin series, running since 1958, commemorates a different diaspora lamp style each year. The Iraqi lamp — associated with the Jewish communities of Babylon and Baghdad, among the oldest continuous Jewish settlements in the world — was selected for 2003 as part of a broader effort to document lamp traditions from communities largely dismantled by mid-20th century emigration. Iraqi Jewish population in Israel had swelled following the 1950–51 mass emigration operation known as Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, which airlifted over 120,000 Jews out of Baghdad.