By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Mahmoud Abbas has said Ramallah would not deduct a single penny from the fund, despite a Feb. 10 statement interpreted by some as ending the practice.
“We will not allow the Palestinian Authority to continue rewarding terrorists for murdering and harming Israeli citizens,” Katz declared.
The same families will receive the same money, just through a different mechanism.
By David Isaac
The terrorists received $141,837,087 from the Palestinian Authority while serving time.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"His phone call tonight to a murderer of Jews is a wake-up call to those who still delude themselves about the P.A. being an alternative to Hamas in Gaza after the war," said Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
By Canaan Lidor
The Israeli Supreme Court's ruling dismisses a petition against compensating victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks with P.A. funds.
By Josh Hasten
The Palestinian Authority "not only fails to oppose terrorism, it actively endorses it," Regavim report finds.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ramallah is requesting ammunition, helmets, bulletproof vests, radios, night vision equipment, explosive disposal suits and armored vehicles.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s National Security Council reportedly briefed ministers that a failure to renew the agreement could have “significant negative consequences for state security and foreign relations.”
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will extend a waiver allowing Israeli banks to do business with their Palestinian Authority counterparts for one month only.
The bill strips entities that transfer funds associated with terror — including the Palestinian Authority’s stipends to imprisoned terrorists and their families — from approaching the High Court.
By Joshua Marks
The move is in response to Oslo recognizing a "Palestinian" state and other anti-Israel actions.
Smotrich tweeted that the move was in retaliation for the Palestinian Authority’s “pay for slay” stipends to imprisoned terrorists.
Despite claiming to be operating at a 172% budget deficit, the Palestinian Authority recently recognized 899 new prisoners from Gaza and tens of thousands more Gaza “martyrs” as eligible for controversial “pay for slay” payouts.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The decision was reportedly made as a tradeoff for Netanyahu's approval to legalize several outposts and approve building in Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The lawsuit is the first legal action taken since the Knesset passed the "Compensation for Terror Victims Bill."
The payments will continue, just under a different name and model.
If the PA would decide to cancel its terror rewards for just one month it could give the NIS 65 million to the hospital to help sick patients.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under the P.A.'s "pay for slay" policy, Ramallah disburses monthly salaries to terrorists and their families.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Since October 7, Israel has suspended visits to the Palestinian prisoners in the prisons. At the same time, Hamas has so far not allowed visits to the abductees it is holding. This is unacceptable."
By David Isaac
The deal is meant to keep the money out of Hamas's hands while also reducing U.S. pressure on Jerusalem.
The PA will be paying Hamas terrorists who massacred Jews on October 7.
According to PMW, incarcerated Arab terrorists fill out forms to receive the “pay for slay” stipends and the Red Cross delivers the paperwork to Ramallah.
The Palestinian Authority will find a way to deliver the payments despite the fact that Gaza is at war and that Hamas seeks to overthrow the Ramallah government.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The kingdom contributed billions to Palestinian Authority Arab causes until cutting off funding over corruption.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
We Believe in Israel and B'nai B'rith demanded to know whether U.K. taxpayers are contributing to Ramallah's "pay-for-slay" policy.
Police said the seizures included 270,000 shekels (over $74,000) in cash, six vehicles, one motorcycle, jewelry and gold.
The government denies the money came from funds frozen under the “anti-pay-for-slay law.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“With a per capita GDP of roughly $3,500 and an average unemployment rate of 25 percent, the P.A. simply could not afford to pay for the salaries of terrorists without international assistance," said the Abraham Global Peace Initiative.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Enough of enabling the Palestinian Authority to reward terrorists, the minister says.
The cousins, who were both released from prison this month, have each collected nearly $100,000 from the Palestinian Authority for the murder of Israel Defense Forces Cpl. Avraham Bromberg in 1980, according to Palestinian Media Watch.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Smotrich said, “As long as the Palestinian Authority encourages terrorism and is an enemy, what interest do I have in helping it exist?”
Two bills were recently submitted to the Knesset that would strip the citizenship of anyone receiving a terror stipend from the Palestinian Authority.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. government is in violation of the 2018 Taylor Force Act, the plaintiffs contend.
By Ariel Kahana
The Israeli defense and finance ministries are operating a secret fund through which money is transferred to Ramallah, a reality revealed in the state’s response to a petition filed with the High Court of Justice by the Kohelet Policy Forum.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
One of the terror cells blew up the Frank Sinatra cafeteria of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and murdered nine people, including five American citizens, and injured over 80 others.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
It's estimated that in 2021 the PA spent NIS 841 million ($270.75 million) paying rewards to terrorists.
Arab students will be celebrating the results of their Bagrut examinations with massive shooting.
The Palestinian Authority considers the EU’s conditions a dangerous step and a submission to Israeli dictates.
The Palestinian Authority pays a monthly alary to all the terrorists involved in the attack.
"Every prisoner or Martyr will be given an ATM card that will enable it to go and withdraw [salaries] at any time, day or night – this will make things easier for them."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Those receiving funds will receive cards for withdrawing money from the P.A. postal bank using ATM machines.
The PA already paid each terrorist $100,000 for murdering the Fogel family.
As a workaround, the terrorists will be required to come into an office to receive their "pay to slay" funds. A new bank is also being set up to sidestep the anti-terror restrictions.
“Sympathizers in the Democratic Party are trying to convince the Palestinians to make changes in the law so salaries will be based on economic conditions and not just on terrorism,” said Yossi Kuperwasser, a senior intelligence and security expert at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
The terrorists are worried their 'pay for slay' salaries will be cut or even discontinued.
Warning letters sent by PMW to the banks informed them of the new Israeli legislation and urged them to immediately close the accounts of the PA terrorists.
“Basically, if you agree with the sentiment behind the Taylor Force Act, you don’t restore funding to the Palestinians,” said Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.)
The Arabic version of the budget references payment to jailed terrorists, while the English translation doesn't include that line item.
The Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs pays salaries to terrorists serving sentences in Israeli prisons.
The police explained that these were funds “received from a hostile entity.”
The father of a terrorist in eastern Jerusalem applied for for Israeli social benefits.
The PA has made it clear they will not stop payments to the jailed terrorists.
Only Meretz and the Joint Arab List opposed the bill.
Palestinian Authority sending payments directly to terrorists in new budget released as Talyor Force Act was being passed is a “slap in the face” to the U.S. says Members of Congress and Knesset
The Washington Post attempts to portray the PA's Pay for Slay law as a social welfare program.
The terrorists who massacred the family are receiving generous salaries from the Palestinian Authority.