Israel’s smallest monetary unit, the Agora, a tenth of a Shekel, may soon disappear, only five years after it was introduced. Dr. Moshe Mandelbaum, Governor of the Bank of Israel, is scheduled to introduce a bill which would abolish the Agora as legal currency. Such a law would only formalize an existing situation since the Agora has not been in use for the past two years.
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