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1 Sheqel Hanukkah - Yemen Lamp
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Composition | Silver (.850) |
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| Obverse description | The State Emblem of Israel — a seven-branched menorah flanked by two olive branches — appears in the upper field, with the Hebrew inscription YISRAEL (ישראל) beneath it. Dominating the center of the coin is the large denomination numeral '1' alongside the Hebrew word SHEQEL (שקל) rendered in bold stylized script. A six-pointed Star of David appears in the lower field, flanked by a trilingual legend reading the date 1982, the country name in Hebrew (ישראל), Latin (ISRAEL), and Arabic (اسرائيل), arranged in an arc along the lower periphery. The Hebrew year 5743 appears in the legend in the right field. |
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| Obverse script | Hebrew, Latin, Arabic |
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Israel's annual Hanukkah coin series, begun in 1958, draws each year from a different Jewish community's lamp tradition — this 1983 issue features the lamp style brought by Yemenite Jews, whose immigration to Israel was largely accomplished through Operation Magic Carpet in 1949–1950, airlifting roughly 49,000 people from Aden. The series is one of the longest-running thematic programs in Israeli numismatics.
KM#123 was struck at the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation facility in Jerusalem, with both proof and regular issues produced for that year's release.