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.
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.