External debt: $18.5 billion (1995 est.)
Economic aid:
recipient: total receipts $12.14 billion of which $11.38 billion
from the US (1990-93)
Currency: 1 new Israeli shekel (NIS) = 100 new agorot
Exchange rates: new Israeli shekels (NIS) per US$1 - 3.1295 (January 1996), 3.0113 (1995), 3.0111 (1994), 2.8301 (1993), 2.4591 (1992), 2.2791 (1991)
Fiscal year: calendar year (since 1 January 1992)
Transportation ———————
Railways: total: 526 km standard gauge: 526 km 1.435-m gauge
Highways:
total: 13,461 km
paved: 13,461 km (including 56 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1992 est.)
Pipelines: crude oil 708 km; petroleum products 290 km; natural
gas 89 km
Ports: Ashdod, Ashqelon, Elat, Hadera, Haifa, Tel Aviv-Yafo