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5 Israeli Pounds Henrietta Szold
| Issuer | Bank of Israel |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Currency | Pound (1960-1980) |
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| Obverse description | The right-facing portrait vignette of Henrietta Szold (1860–1945), Zionist leader and founder of the Hadassah Women's Organization, occupies the left portion of the face, set against a fine guilloche underprint. To the right, a vignette of the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem is rendered in intaglio. Denominating inscriptions in Hebrew reading 'Five Israeli Lirot' and 'Bank of Israel' appear alongside the numerals '5' and the Hebrew date התשל'ג / 1973. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on an intaglio vignette of Lions' Gate (also known as St. Stephen's Gate or Sheep Gate), one of the historic entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem, rendered with architectural detail. The numeral '5' appears in both Western and Arabic-Indic script. The trilingual legend 'Bank of Israel' is inscribed in Hebrew, English, and Arabic across the note. |
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By the time this note entered circulation, the Israeli pound was already on borrowed time — the shekel reform arrived in 1980, replacing it at 10:1. Enschedé's engravers Paul Kor and Adrian Senger produced the portrait work, and the Haarlem firm had by then become the dominant supplier for Bank of Israel issues across multiple series.
Henrietta Szold, the Baltimore-born founder of Hadassah, was the first woman to appear on an Israeli banknote. She died in 1945, nearly three years before the state whose currency would eventually bear her face came into existence.