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Road to Jerusalem. Banknote of the first series to be issued by the newly established Bank of Israel in 1957. Courtesy of Bank of Israel.
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This article analyzes the significance of Jerusalem in Jewish-Israeli consciousness through the city's representations on banknotes, based on the proceedings of the Bank of Israel's Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee since its inception in 1955. The Banknotes Committee , as an institutional body that represents the ruling hegemony, has worked...
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... of Jerusalem appeared on the 50 pound banknote of the Landscape Series-the first to be issued by the newly established Bank of Israel in 1957. This series was designed before the foundation of the Banknotes Committee. The illustration portrays the single road to Jerusalem going from the Tel Aviv area through the Bab el-Wad area to Jerusalem (see fig. 1). This choice reflects the significance of the entrance to the Jerusalem mountains and the Latrun area, which had been crucial for keeping contact with the besieged city during the War of Independence. Although Ben-Gurion agreed twice to establish the state without its capital-according to the Partition Plan of 1937 (Peel Commission) ...
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