The Agora (/æɡəˈrɑː/; plural Agorot /-ˈrɒt/;[1] Hebrew: אגורה, pl.
The name agora refers to the subunits of three distinct Israeli currencies.
This name was used for the first time in 1960, when the Israeli government decided to change the subdivision of the Israeli pound (Hebrew: לירה, lira) from 1,000 prutah to 100 agorot due to the currency's depreciation.
This time the term "new" was avoided, in order to prevent confusion with the older subdivision (the pre-1980 agora was long since out of circulation).
The 1 agora coin was withdrawn from circulation on April 1, 1991 by the Bank of Israel,[3] as was the 5 agorot coin on January 1, 2008; in each case the value had shrunk to much less than the cost of production.