{"id":272315,"date":"2024-07-30T10:40:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T02:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=272315"},"modified":"2024-07-30T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T02:46:18","slug":"israeli-shekel-falls-against-usd-amid-growing-tension-with-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=272315","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Shekel Falls Against USD Amid Growing Tension With Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JERUSALEM, Jul 30 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; The Israeli shekel significantly depreciated against the U.S. dollar, amid the growing security tension in northern Israel, according to official exchange rates issued by Israel&#8217;s central bank, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The representative rate was set at 3.733 shekels for one dollar, compared to the previous rate of 3.68 shekels per dollar, set on Friday, reflecting a weakening of 1.4 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph Freiman, CEO of the Israeli financial Prico Group, said that, concerns about a possible flare-up in the north and local demands have strengthened the dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that, worsening security conditions could trigger a domino effect, potentially pushing the shekel&#8217;s value down to at least 3.8 shekels per dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tension in northern Israel escalated on Saturday, after a rocket strike killed 12 people on a football pitch in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, with Israel alleging that the attack was carried out by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hezbollah denied involvement in the incident.&#8211; NNN-MA&#8217;AN &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, Jul 30 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; The Israeli shekel significantly depreciated against the U.S. dollar, amid the growing security tension in northern Israel, according to official exchange rates issued by Israel&#8217;s central bank, yesterday. The representative rate was set at 3.733 shekels for one dollar, compared to the previous rate of 3.68 shekels per dollar, set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":272321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,300,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272322,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272315\/revisions\/272322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}