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5 Lirot Knesset Building
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#45 |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a bold architectural rendering of the Knesset building in Jerusalem, shown in a three-quarter elevated perspective with its characteristic flat-roofed colonnade facade and broad entrance esplanade rendered in clean, modernist lines. Horizontal lines extending from the base of the building suggest a wide plaza or approach. The Hebrew legend הכנסת (The Knesset) is inscribed in the lower right field, while the Arabic legend مبنى الكنيست appears alongside it. The overall composition emphasizes the monumental character of the Israeli parliament building inaugurated in 1966. |
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| Edge | Lettered: חמש לירות ישראליות |
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Issued to mark the inauguration of the permanent Knesset building in Jerusalem, which had finally opened in 1966 — meaning this coin was struck in anticipation, before the building was formally complete. The Israeli parliament had been operating out of a converted cinema on King George Street in Tel Aviv, then from a temporary Jerusalem structure, for nearly two decades after independence.
The architect was Joseph Klarwein, the same man responsible for the Shrine of the Book.