How to Use shekel in a Sentence

shekel

noun
  • One wonders why the contribution was a half shekel and not a whole.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Now the chain has raised the flat price at its cafes to six shekels, and suddenly my friends don’t go anymore.
    — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 20 July 2017
  • Now, due to the strength of the shekel, Haber has taken what amounts to a 20% pay cut over the last year.
    — Theia Chatelle, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • One kilo of plastic sells for around one Israeli shekel, or 30 cents.
    — Heidi Levine, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The answer in ancient Babylon, where a standard wage was one shekel per month, was not much.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Prosecutors say these were worth hundreds of thousands of shekels.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Those concerns have already sent the shekel plummeting to the lowest level in years.
    — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Oil prices are up since Wednesday morning and Israel’s shekel is heading for its worst week in more than four years.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The shekel weakened to head for its worst week since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas in October.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • The Israeli stock market jumped about two points and the shekel rallied at the news that Gallant was going to oppose him.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Much of this is thanks to the appreciation of Israel’s currency, the shekel.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Exporters, meanwhile, have counter-intuitively watched their profit margins dwindle as the shekel gains.
    — Theia Chatelle, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • His son won’t ask the sons of wealthy oligarchs to spot him 400 shekels for a prostitute, as Yair Netanyahu did.
    — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
  • When the dollar is relatively strong compared to the shekel, as was the case for much of the past decade, that arrangement is advantageous.
    — Theia Chatelle, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • In February, Lavon hid a USB flash drive wrapped in a 50 shekel note (approx.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.
    — Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • She, too, will be given credit for time served, leaving her five months in prison, along with a fine of 6,000 Israeli shekels (approx.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Part of the reason for Tel Aviv’s rise to the top was the strength of its currency, the shekel, when translated into dollars, the report said.
    — NBC News, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Capital markets are also outperforming, with the Tel Aviv 35 surging and the shekel rising.
    — Dan Mangan,emma Graham,hugh Leask,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • With economists warning a stronger shekel can lead to employment drops and other negative consequences, calls have been growing on the Bank of Israel to intervene.
    — Theia Chatelle, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • Israel resumed interest rate cuts on Monday, but was met with unusual backlash by Israeli exporters, who want the central bank to do more to counter the shekel’s appreciation.
    — Galit Altstein, Bloomberg, 25 May 2026
  • Yet much of the shekel’s gain against the dollar has actually stemmed from the war, as the dollar has weakened and investors have flocked to Israel’s high-tech sector, and particularly its defense industry, which has been buoyed by the conflict.
    — Theia Chatelle, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • The protocol established that the Israeli shekel would be the currency of the Palestinian economy, and that Israel would control borders, trade, tax transfers, and work permits.
    — Nirit Peled, New Yorker, 26 June 2026
  • Even budget phones have been selling for as much as 5,000 shekels — around $1,500 — according to customers in Gaza, where prices have spiked to 10 times those in other countries.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Assets held in dollars go further in an Israeli economy priced in shekels, giving American immigrants greater purchasing power for everyday expenses.
    — Theia Chatelle, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • Israel’s economy has proved resilient despite the high costs of war and the growing threat of international boycotts, with the shekel outperforming its prewar levels and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange breaking records.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2025
  • According to the indictment and a prosecutors’ statement, Bezalel Zini pocketed some 365,000 shekels (about $117,000) in the scheme.
    — Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 in three cases, one of which includes receiving almost 700,000 shekels ($210,000) in gifts from businessmen, including champagne and cigars.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 12 Nov. 2025

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