The Israeli Shekel Sign: A Quick Guide

The Israeli shekel sign is denoted by the symbol ₪.

The shekel has undergone several name changes over the years, with the current name being adopted in 1980.

In 1985, the shekel was revalued and a new currency, the new shekel, was introduced, with a new symbol ₪ introduced in 1986.

The new shekel is divided into 100 agorot, but coins are no longer issued in agorot denomination.

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You can insert the Israeli shekel sign on a Mac by holding down the Control, Command, and Spacebar keys to reveal the Character Viewer, then selecting Currency Symbols on the left-hand sidebar.

The shekel symbol is located in the Emoji & Symbols library on a Mac.

To type the shekel symbol on an iPhone, you'll first need to add Hebrew to your list of available keyboards in Settings.

On an iPhone, you can access the shekel symbol by pressing and holding the Globe key to reveal Hebrew, then holding down the U.S. dollar sign to reveal the ₪.

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On an Android device, switch to a Hebrew keyboard by finding Languages in the Systems part of your Settings, then tapping Virtual keyboard followed by Gboard.

You can easily insert the symbol into your document using copy and paste on a mobile device.

Here are the standard guidelines for using the shekel sign in Israel:

The New Sheqel Sign is a currency symbol used for the shekel, the currency of Israel.

It was added to the Unicode version 1.1 in 1993, which is a significant milestone in its history.

The character is commonly used and is not specific to any particular script.

It belongs to the block U+20A0 to U+20CFCurrency Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFFBasic Multilingual Plane.

In bidirectional text, it is written as the end of a European number from left to right.

The glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian texts.

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