Interesting Psak: Not Looking at the 50nis Bill

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Rav Bentzion Mutzafi paskened during a shiur that one is prohibited from looking at the image gracing the 50nis bill. The image is of Shaul Tchernichisky and because he was married to a gentile woman, it is prohibited to look at his image.
In response to a student's questioning for further explanation, Rav Mutzafi explained that Tchernichovsky was married to a committed Christian woman who famously went to mass every Sunday. Rav Kook, at the time, pleaded with Tchernichovsky to have her convert, but he refused.
Rav Mutzafi concluded his response saying that because of this he keeps the 50nis bill in his pocket folded backwards so as to fulfill the words of chazal to not look at the image of a rasha for even a moment.
source: Kikar
It is worth noting here that when the State decided to print new bills and selected Tchernichosky's face as the image for the 50 shekel bill, Chagai Ben Artzi, Prime Minister Netanyahu's brother in law, petitioned to have this decision revoked so as not to promote a lifestyle of intermarriage.
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