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1 Lira Hanukkah - Torah is Light
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse script | Arabic, Hebrew |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Israel's Hanukkah series, launched in 1958, was conceived as an annual commemorative program tying each issue to a different Jewish community's historic lamp design — a deliberate cultural policy by the young state to acknowledge the diverse diaspora traditions gathered under one government. This first issue references the Yemenite Jewish community. The Torah is Light inscription draws from a Talmudic phrase, and the series itself ran for decades, eventually becoming one of the most systematically collected modern Israeli programs among both numismatists and Judaica collectors.