According to a press release dated 27 January 2021, the Bank of Israel intends to introduce “in the coming days,” 100- and 200-new sheqel notes (B444b and B445b, respectively) like preceding issues, but with new date (2020) and new signature (Amir Yaron). Courtesy of Raphael Dvir.Read More…

B442 (P65): 20 new shekels (US$5.50) Red. Front: Hebrew text; menorah as registration device; open book in gold-to-green SPARK; palm trees; poet, Rachel Bluwstein; microprinted poem “Kinneret.” Back: Arabic, English, and Hebrew text; Sea of Galilee shoreline; segment of poem “Perhaps it was nothing…;” menorah. Kurz Kinegram Volume holographic stripe.Read More…

, B445 (PNL): 200 new shekels (US$58)Blue. Front: Menorah as registration device; open book in gold-to-green SPARK; fall leaves; Natan Alterman; microprinted poem “Eternal Meeting.” Back: Moonlit tree branches; menorah. Windowed color-changing security thread with demetalized 200 and portrait of Natan Alterman. Watermark: Natan Alterman and electrotype 200. Printer: Unknown.Read More…