Before Israel's founding, the kibbutz movement operated with a degree of economic autonomy that occasionally extended to issuing internal scrip. Kibbutz Dalia, established in the Menashe Hills in 1939, was among those that produced its own internal currency — tokens of account used to manage member purchasing within the closed communal economy, where cash wages were neither paid nor needed.
The perforated edges are a functional detail, not a security measure in any modern sense — more consistent with booklet or ledger separation than with anti-counterfeiting intent. Notes of this type were never intended to circulate outside the kibbutz fence.
Before Israel's founding, the kibbutz movement operated with a degree of economic autonomy that occasionally extended to issuing internal scrip. Kibbutz Dalia, established in the Menashe Hills in 1939, was among those that produced its own internal currency — tokens of account used to manage member purchasing within the closed communal economy, where cash wages were neither paid nor needed.
The perforated edges are a functional detail, not a security measure in any modern sense — more consistent with booklet or ledger separation than with anti-counterfeiting intent. Notes of this type were never intended to circulate outside the kibbutz fence.