The shekel was an ancient unit of weight and currency.
These new and old shekels are purely a unit of currency rather than a unit of weight.
Counting the shekels does not produce wealth.
It has now abandoned the begging bowl and instead has acquired a croupier's rake and is busily shovelling in the shekels from every corner of the taxpayers' table.
Of the £12,500,000, £8,000,000 goec in compensation and other charges, and the other £4,500,000 goes to the people who are raking in the shekels for merely keeping the books and gathering the premiums.
Is there going to a great recruiting campaign to get the shekels in?
They are being given a carrot of golden shekels, and are told to get on their way because they are not wanted any more.
Because it is all about money—it is about shekels and it is about profit.
