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10 New Sheqalim Golda Meir
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Thickness | 2.2 mm |
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| Obverse script | Hebrew |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Golda Meir died in 1978, and this commemorative bimetallic issue appeared seventeen years later as part of Israel's ongoing program honoring figures central to the state's founding generation. Meir had served as Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974, resigning in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War — a conflict whose intelligence failures haunted her final years in office. The Agranat Commission's findings, though largely sparing her personally, made her political position untenable.
The "aureate bonded steel" center was a cost-reduction measure adopted by numerous mints in the 1990s as gold-colored bimetallic coins proliferated globally following the success of earlier European issues.