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Arabs who live in Gaza and the West Bank currently use the Israeli Sheqel as their currency for a variety of reasons. Firstly, the Palestinian economy is not strong enough to build a mint, let alone properly regulate a currency. Also Israel does a lot of tax collection for Palestine and having the same currency reduces problems associated with that collection. There is also occasional use of other Arab currencies to a far lesser degree.

There was a time in the late 1920's when the Western powers created a "Palestinian" currency in line with the Balfour Declaration, but this, along with many other institutions, was scrapped by the local Arabs with no better alternative to replace it. Even to this day they continue to use the currency of their sworn enemy Israel.

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