5 Israeli Pounds

The 1955 series was Bank of Israel's first fully sovereign issue, replacing the notes of the Anglo-Palestine Bank that had carried the young state through its opening years. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing — a predictable choice for a new central bank establishing credibility quickly, though the relationship with De La Rue would not last indefinitely as Israel later developed domestic printing capacity.

Watermark security only, by modern standards a thin specification, but consistent with what De La Rue was producing for comparable newly independent issuers at the time. Pick 26 is the more common survivor of the series; the higher denominations are considerably harder to locate in any condition.