Current sectionIsrael NewsEconomy & FinanceAccording to the central bank, the purchases - totaling $800 million in May - were a one-off measureShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeNati Tucker02:14 AM • June 09 2026 IDTThe Bank of Israel bought $801 million in May in an effort to stabilize the shekel-dollar exchange rate, its first foreign exchange intervention since May 2022.Loading...Click the alert icon to follow topics:Bank of IsraelIsrael economyCommentsLoading...In the NewsIn the News: Israel-Iran Live UpdatesTerror AttackWest BankGulfLebanonGermany-IsraelRachel Goldberg-PolinHaQuizHaaretz PodcastBank of Israel Intervenes in Currency Market to Maintain StabilityIsrael's Next Government Must Crack Down on ultra-Orthodox ViolenceWill Anyone Stop Israel Sliding Into Another War?Israel's New State Comptroller Is a Gatekeeper With No GateDismantling UNRWA Won't Erase the Conflict It RepresentsRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMI'We Were Ordered to Kill': The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don't Know AboutOne Killed, Five Wounded in Terror Shooting Rampage in Central Israel'Fucking Crazy': Trump Lashes Out at Netanyahu Over Lebanon, Report SaysGermany Is Paying a Price for Its Sweeping Support for IsraelThe Paradigm That Led to Oct. 7 Didn't Collapse, It Was Fiction From the StartHow the U.S. Air Force Is Turning Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport Into Its Own Base