So interactive brokers now allows outgoing (and maybe incoming) wires in Israeli shekel. you get one free transfer a month and after that wires are $10. You can do the currency trasfer before sending the wire. Currently the bid and ask are 3.7629 and 3.7640 which is a difference of about .03%...
I have a significant portion of my money in USD, and I'd like to convert USD to ILS (Israeli Shekel) for living expenses. My plan was to use Ideal Pro FX (Interactive Brokers), and then wire the shekels to an Israeli bank account. After opening my IB account I realized that they let you trade...