Although the government had paid the basic salaries of public servants for April with a maximum of 10,000
shekels ($2,770), it did not set a maximum amount of disbursement for May salaries.
Because Al-Qawasmi was married and had a child, the PA pays his family 400
shekels extra for his wife and 200
shekels extra for the child, in addition to the basic allowance of 1,400
shekels per month, PMW notes.
That done, paper currency could be made that converts either Palestinian or Galilean Silver
Shekels. Throw in a little bitcoin technology and you have a fully functional monetary system.
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Caption: KINEGRAM VOLUME[R] foil stripe on Israel's New 50
Shekels banknote.
The Israeli cabinet will also approve a plan to allocate 1.5 million
Shekels to develop residential complexes surrounding Gaza Strip over five years.
Abu Saeed, a Palestinian donor, complained that he was charged 30
Shekels for a pack of six bottles.
TEL AVyV (CyHAN)- Israeli Energy Minister Silvan Shalom said Monday that the state's revenues from its newly discovered gas fields are expected to double by 2015 and reach a total of one billion
shekel (about 280 million U.S.
Lapid wants a cut of four billion
shekels ($1.12 billion, 860 million euros) to help plug a budget deficit expected to be capped at 4.65 percent of gross domestic product this year and three percent in 2014.
Ben Zvi, who purchased the troubled, more than 60-year-old Ma'ariv last month, has said workers earning more than 22,000
shekels per month would have to take pay cuts, The Times of Israel reported.