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A 500 mil (£P 1 ⁄ 2) note issued by the Anglo-Palestine Bank in Jaffa in 1948.. The Palestine pound (Arabic: جُنَيْه فِلَسْطَينِيّ, junayh filastini; פונט פלסטיני |funt palestina'i or Hebrew: לירה, romanized: lira Palestinay'it; Sign: £P [1] [2] [improper synthesis?]) was the currency of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1 November 1927 to 14 May 1948 ...
The British Mandate of Palestine was created in 1918. In 1927 the Palestine Currency Board, established by the British authorities, and subject to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, issued the Palestine pound (£P) which was legal tender in Mandate Palestine and Transjordan. £P1 was fixed at exactly £1 sterling.
Israel adopted the Israeli pound on 16 August 1948 at par with the Palestine pound, and meanwhile the 1:1 parity with the pound sterling continued until 1952, after which the external value of the Israeli pound began to drop rapidly. Jordan adopted the Jordanian dinar in 1949. The name dinar then became the preferred name for the pound sterling ...
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GREENSBURG, Pa. – Former President Bill Clinton claimed Tuesday that Israeli leaders “don’t care anymore” about peace between the Jewish State and Palestinians and said Vice President ...
November 16, 2023 at 1:08 PM Former US president Bill Clinton has described the conflict in the Gaza Strip as “heartbreaking” as he urged people to find “common ground”.
The Palestine pound before 1948 was not an Arab currency, it was a currency issued by the British colonial authorities in cooperation with the Zionist Anglo-Palestine company. It was used throught Palestine and until 1946 in Transjordan, so Palestinian Arabs used it too. DrorK 15:04, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
The pruta was introduced shortly after the establishment of the state of Israel, as the 1000th part of the Israeli pound. It replaced the mil, which was the 1000th part of the Palestine pound, a currency issued by the British Mandate of Palestine prior to May 1948. Pruta from the reign of Agrippa I