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100 Sheqalim Ze'ev Jabotinsky
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Value | 100 Sheqalim (100 ILR) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is centered on a detailed architectural vignette of the Herod Gate — known in Hebrew as Sha'ar ha-Perachim (Gate of the Flowers) and in Arabic as Bab al-Zahra — set within the Ottoman walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The word 'Jerusalem' is repeated in microprinted text forming part of the background guilloche pattern. The trilingual inscription 'Bank of Israel' appears in Hebrew, English, and Arabic. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 ١٠٠ בנק ישראל Bank of Israel بنك إسرائيل ירושלים (Translation: 100 Bank of Israel Bank of Israel Bank of Israel Jerusalem) |
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By 1979, Israeli inflation was accelerating sharply — within a few years it would reach triple digits annually — and the 100 sheqalim denomination, once substantial, was losing purchasing power at a pace that made large-denomination notes necessary almost immediately after issue. The series was already under pressure before the notes had time to settle into normal circulation.
Enschedé's work here is among the last they produced for Israel before the sheqel was eventually replaced by the new sheqel in 1985, wiping out the entire pound-to-sheqel denomination structure. Jabotinsky himself had died in New York in 1940, and his remains were not transferred to Israel until 1964 — a repatriation authorized by a Knesset resolution that Ben-Gurion, a political adversary, had blocked for years.