2 New Shekels Desert Agriculture in Israel

Part of Israel's long-running commemorative series celebrating the country's agricultural achievements in arid environments, this issue highlights drip irrigation technology pioneered largely by Israeli engineers in the 1960s — a development that fundamentally changed water-use efficiency in farming worldwide and is now deployed across more than 40 countries. The Negev and Arava regions, once dismissed as unworkable desert, produce a significant share of Israel's winter vegetable and flower exports.