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Fortune
Mia Osmonbekov

A weak yen turned Tokyo into a steal. A strong shekel turned Tel Aviv into the world's most expensive city to buy McDonald's

(Credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS -- AFP via Getty Images)

A McMeal costs the equivalent of $20.90 in Tel Aviv, the highest price on Earth, and $4.90 in Tokyo, once the world’s priciest city.

A new Deutsche Bank report shows that the difference boils down to currency: a shekel strengthened by tech and defense spending, and a yen weakened by two decades of near-zero rates.

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