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1 Lira pound Kibbutz HaMa'apil
| Issuer | Kibbutz HaMa'apil |
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| Year | 1971 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on yellow paper. Kibbutz name in Hebrew at top, denomination numeral "1" with currency abbreviation to the right, Hebrew year תשל״א below in large letters. Inscription at foot restricts use to internal circulation only. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 ל״י המעפיל תשל״א לשימוש פנימי (Translation: 1 Lira (pound) HaMa'apil Internal use only) |
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Kibbutz HaMa'apil, founded in 1945 by Jewish immigrants who had survived the Nazi camps and arrived via the illegal immigration networks, issued internal scrip as a practical mechanism for managing communal purchasing within the kibbutz economy. These tokens of exchange — sometimes called "kibbutz money" — circulated only within the settlement and were redeemable at the communal store, preventing members from accumulating private capital while still allowing modest personal discretionary spending. Dozens of Israeli kibbutzim issued similar scrip through the 1960s and 1970s.
The near-square format is characteristic of the smaller kibbutz denominations of this period.