1 New Sheqel Medicine in Israel

Issued as part of Bank of Israel's long-running commemorative series celebrating Israeli achievements in science and culture, this piece marks medicine specifically — a field in which Israel invested heavily following statehood, building research institutions and a national health infrastructure largely from scratch during the 1950s and 60s. The Weizmann Institute and Hadassah Medical Center were already internationally regarded by the time this coin was struck.