The Israel government has broken a precedent with its new series of banknotes which will carry portraits of famous individuals. Hitherto the bills were decorated with representations of fishermen, scientists in action and flowers. The new IL 100 note has a portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization and the new IL 10 note carries that of Haim Nahman Bialik, Israel’s poet laureate. Going into circulation tomorrow is a new IL 50 banknote with a portrait of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president and an IL 5 note with a portrait of the famed physicist, Albert Einstein. Einstein is the only non-Israeli so honored.
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