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This, in theory, should help create more jobs. Devaluation was achieved by raising the "medium exchange rate" of the shekel vis-a-vis the basket of inter- national currencies by 3 per- cent. The basket is a measuring unit, determined by the Bank of Israel, that includes all major currencies. The "medium rate" is a fixed exchange rate that the cen- tral bank is authorized to fluctuate up or down by 5 percent. The medium rate rose vis-a-vis the basket from 2.8632 to 2.9250. This does not necessarily mean an immediate devaluation, since the exchange rate can go down 5 percent, as well as up. However, by this week the shekel was already devalued by 0.5 percent. All major economic sectors welcomed the new measures. The Histadrut labor federa- tion promised to be flexible when the agreements on cost-of-living increases are renewed early next year. The business sector said the government was taking the high road toward combat- ting unemployment and securing economic stability. But opposition politicians were critical. Likud Knesset member Dan Tichon de- scribed the measures as "too little and too late."