← Read the currency articleIsraeli pound: research record
Evidence coverage: 1948–1980. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
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Israeli pound
FTM000227 · Research draft
A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1948–1980; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
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Historical account researchThe Israel pound of 1,000 mils inherits existing Palestine-pound references under Currency Ordinance section 2; statutory monetary succession is already present in 1948, regardless of later banknote issuer or wording changes.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
1948supportedThe Israel pound of 1,000 mils inherits existing Palestine-pound references under Currency Ordinance section 2; statutory monetary succession is already present in 1948, regardless of later banknote issuer or wording changes.
C1536
Evidence & research notes 3 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C1114
Israel implemented the statutory change from the pound to the sheqel in February 1980. The 1985 new-sheqel rescaling stays within the sheqel profile.
Bank of Israel · Sheqel series Citation S536 ·
Open source ↗1969 currency law; February 1980 implementation; Agora and New Sheqel Series opening paragraph
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Bank of Israel · Banknotes and Coins — Agora and New Sheqel Series Citation S237 ·
Open source ↗1969 currency law; February 1980 implementation; Agora and New Sheqel Series opening paragraph
Supported C1536
The Israel pound of 1,000 mils inherits existing Palestine-pound references under Currency Ordinance section 2; statutory monetary succession is already present in 1948, regardless of later banknote issuer or wording changes.
Government of Israel; English translations reproduced by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System · New Currency System in Israel, Federal Reserve Bulletin, December 1948 Citation S878 ·
Open source ↗Currency Ordinance sections 1–2; Bank Notes Ordinance section 13
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
English translation reproduced contemporaneously, not the original Hebrew gazette.
Supported C1709
Israel's 1948 Currency Ordinance substitutes the Israel pound for existing and future Palestine-pound references, and the Bank Notes Ordinance exchanges notes at the same numerical amount. This is a documented regional account succession at parity; it does not imply termination of the Palestine pound in Jordan or Gaza in 1948.
Government of Israel; English translations reproduced by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System · New Currency System in Israel, Federal Reserve Bulletin, December 1948 Citation S878 ·
Open source ↗Currency Ordinance sections 1–4; Bank Notes Ordinance sections 7 and 13
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
English translation reproduced contemporaneously, not the original Hebrew gazette.
Nicholas Krus and Kurt Schuler · Currency Board Financial Statements, Studies in Applied Economics No.22 (December 2014) Citation S189 ·
Open source ↗Currency Ordinance sections 1–4; Bank Notes Ordinance sections 7 and 13
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Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.