In case of these banknotes, Slania only engraved the portraits on the front sides:
1983. At the left 1000 Sheqalim. The banknote was issued for the 850th anniversary of Maimonides’ birth. As curiosity, Slania used his own ear as model.
1986. At the right the new banknote of 1 New Sheqalim.
Front side of banknotes show to Moses Maimonides [Rabbi Mose ben Maimon] 1134-1204, born in Cordoba (Spain), and recognized as “Ramba”. Maimonides was a Jewish physician, philosopher and theologist, and the most important rabbi of the ancient ages.
1984. At the left: Pick No. 50. Banknote of 5000 Sheqalim.
1987. At the right: Pick No. 52. Banknote of 5 New Sheqalim.
Levi Eshkol (1895-1969). Israeli politician born in the Ukraine. He was Israeli minister of agriculture 1951-52, minister for finances 1952-1963, prime minister and of minister of defense 1963-1969.
1984. Banknote of 10,000 Sheqalim.
1985, 1987, and 1992. Banknote of 10 New Sheqalim.
Golda Meir (earlier Golda Meyerson, born Golda Mabovitch), was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel’s first and the world’s third woman to hold such an office, she was described as the “Iron Lady” of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. (source: Wikipedia).
1985, 1988, and 1992. Banknote of 50 New Sheqalim.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970). Israeli author and Nobel Prize in 1966. His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European shtetl (village). In a wider context, he also contributed to broadening the characteristic conception of the narrator’s role in literature. Agnon shared the Nobel Prize with the poet Nelly Sachs in 1966.for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people. (source: Wikipedia)
In 1998 The State of Israel commemorated its 50th birthday by issuing a special edition of the 1985 banknote engraved by Czeslaw Slania in a limited edition of 20.000. This conmemorative banknote has 5 digits long instead of 10. The set contains also a conmemorative coin.