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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

money

The Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, October 3, 2019. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 29, 2024, 3:20 pm
Israel extends period to locate potential heirs for unclaimed assets
Another 90 days allocated to find rightful owners of real estate and monetary assets before they can be taken by state; but latest list published only in Hebrew and not abroad
By Omer Sharvit
Israelis picnic in a field outside Rehovot, January 23, 2021. Buying a slice of agricultural land outside a city in hopes it gets rezoned is one way to get into the real estate game without a major investment, though it comes with substantial risks. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
December 8, 2022, 5:29 pm
No house, no problem: NIS 300,000 can still buy a ticket on the real estate express
In this last article of our series on how far $90,000 will stretch in today’s housing market, a look at ways to keep up with housing inflation without necessarily owning a property
By Danielle Nagler
A man who won NIS 80 million in Israel's largest lottery jackpot poses with a giant check at the offices of the Mifal HaPais national lottery on February 6, 2022 (Mifal HaPais)
February 6, 2022, 6:16 pm
Winner of Israel’s largest-ever lottery jackpot says winning numbers emitted a light
Scoops NIS 80 million ($25 million); had never filled out a lottery ticket before and only did so because the prize was so large
By ToI Staff
A man sleeps on a public bench next to closed shops on Hillel Street in downtown Jerusalem, on September 23, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 30, 2020, 3:53 pm
Israeli study finds paying off debt, not spending, is main use of stimulus cash
Study says plan that handed 750 NIS to every Israeli ‘modestly achieved’ government goal to stimulate an economy battered by coronavirus lockdown measures
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this June 15, 2018, file photo, twenty dollar bills are counted in North Andover, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
March 20, 2020, 9:01 am
Filthy lucre: Paper money shunned for fear of virus spread
Businesses worldwide discourage cash payment amid pandemic and some shun it completely, but experts say banknotes aren’t a central method of infection
By Ken Sweet
Illustration of US dollar bills. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)
December 8, 2019, 2:36 pm
Taxi driver finds $15,000 in his backseat, tracks down owners
Moshe Barkat of Bat Yam manages to locate the owners of the money, which was meant to fund treatment at Tel Aviv hospital: ‘They weren’t very excited to get the money back’
By ToI Staff
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, speaks in front of the concept design for the new Bank of England 50 pound banknote, featuring mathematician and scientist Alan Turing, during the presentation at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, north-west England on July 15, 2019. (OLI SCARFF / AFP)
July 15, 2019, 8:36 pm
WWII code-breaker Alan Turing to appear on new UK bank note
Mathematician, who was persecuted for homosexuality and committed suicide, honored as face of £50 bill
By AFP
Zachary Schrieber
June 21, 2018, 3:00 pm
Zachary Schrieber
The OU’s lack of financial transparency
As the Orthodox Union expands its role, it must make crystal clear that all its dealings are kosher
President Reuven Rivlin looks at the new NIS 20 and NIS 100 bills at a ceremony in his residence in Jerusalem on November 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 22, 2017, 11:08 pm
Rivlin hails equality as bank notes honoring women enter circulation
New NIS 20 and NIS 100 bills featuring female poets Leah Goldberg and Rachel Bluwstein presented to president
By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff
Hebrew poets Rachel (left) and Leah Goldberg (right) on new NIS 20 and 100 banknotes. (Courtesy of the Bank of Israel)
November 16, 2017, 8:24 pm
New bills to feature famous Israeli women poets
Leah Goldberg and Rachel Bluwstein, both Ashkenazi, to grace NIS 20 and NIS 100 notes, despite PM’s pledge to celebrate Sephardic Jews on bills
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image of chocolate coins used during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. (tomertu/iStock via Getty images)
August 9, 2017, 11:50 pm
Russian launches world’s first Jewish cryptocurrency
BitCoen to conform to Jewish law, offer interest-free loans and be administered by a council made up of community members
By ToI Staff
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a man displays a new bank note of 2,000 Syrian Lira, ($3.9) featuring the face of President Bashar Assad, during a press conference for Central Bank Governor Duraid Durgham in Damascus, Syria, July 2, 2017. (SANA via AP)
July 3, 2017, 12:44 pm
In a first, image of Syrian leader to grace new banknotes
Bashar Assad to feature on currency for first time in his 17-year-rule; old bills to be phased out due to ‘wear and tear’
By Sarah El Deeb
A Bank of England employee shows the new five pound note at the Bank of England Museum in London on Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
December 4, 2016, 5:47 am
Hindus boycott UK bank notes containing animal fat
Confirmation by Bank of England that new 5-pound bill is made with traces of tallow sparks outrage
By ToI Staff and AP
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