Israelis use credit cards as an admittance cardto... weddings!

Usual gift of Israeli guests to the newly wedded – an amount of money – now can be made by inserting a credit card into a special machine put at the entrance by the bride and groom.

"It's new in Israel and the world," Aya Alon Kaufman of the Gan Oranim hall in Tel Aviv said on Israel's Channel 10 television. "It's very convenient ... guests can give a gift even if they forget their chequebooks."

Paying 500 shekels ($155) couples rent the device which functions just like usual automated teller machine. The machine transfers the recorded funds to their bank account the next day.

After making a transaction the machine prints out a "deposit" slip with the guest's name. The slip may be put into the envelope with a congratulatory card and left in the slot made specially in the device for couples to extract.