Israel P-46

ISRAEL
Israeli sheqel (ILR)

P-46a
Value: 50 sheqalim
Issued by: Bank of Israel
Date: 1978

Features

 Obverse:

David Ben Gurion (1886-1973), the first Prime Minister of Israel, served from 1948 until 1954 and again from 1955 until 1963. 

Reverse:

Golden Gate, Jerusalem 

Watermark: David Ben Gurion 

Note: without small bars below serial number; without yellowish bar code strips on upper right on back

Israel P-43

ISRAEL 
Israeli sheqel (ILR) 

P-43
Value: 1 sheqel
Issued by: Bank of Israel
Date: 1978

Features

 Obverse:

Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (see description in previous article) 

Reverse:

Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem 

Watermark: Sir Moses Montefiore

Israel P-39

Country or State: ISRAEL
Currency: Israeli lira (ILP)

P-39
Value: 10 lirot
Issued by: Bank of Israel
Date: 1973

Features

 Obverse:

Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885), one of the most famous British Jews of the 19th century. Montefiore was a financier, banker, philantrophist and Sheriff of London; 

Montefiore windmill in Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem. 

Reverse:

Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem 

Watermark: Sir Moses Montefiore

Israel P-38

Country or State: ISRAEL
Currency: Israeli lira (ILP)

P-38
Value: 5 lirot
Issued by: Bank of Israel
Date: 1973

Features

 Obverse:

Henrietta Szold (1860-1945), a U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of the Hadassah Women's Organization. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandate Palestine dedicated to a binational solution. 

Reverse:

The Lions' Gate or St. Stephen's Gate, located in the Old City Walls of Jerusalem and is one of seven open Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls. 

Watermark: Henrietta Szold