By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under the P.A.'s "pay for slay" policy, Ramallah disburses monthly salaries to terrorists and their families.
By Ariel Kahana
Accounting measures, drop in gas tax boost P.A. coffers.
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Police said the seizures included 270,000 shekels (over $74,000) in cash, six vehicles, one motorcycle, jewelry and gold.
The network of companies distributed and offset fictitious invoices amounting to tens of millions of shekels for money-laundering and tax offenses.
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?”
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.
The Palestinian Authority considers the EU’s conditions a dangerous step and a submission to Israeli dictates.
Israel’s Minister of Regional Cooperation Issawi Frej claimed earlier this week that the PA was contemplating making changes to its policy of paying monthly stipends to imprisoned terrorists and their families.
"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."
The banks were notified that if they continued to operate these accounts and process payments from the PA to terrorists, it would be a violation of Israeli law, exposing them to civil and criminal liability.
The PA already paid each terrorist $100,000 for murdering the Fogel family.
The PA pays terrorists in a roundabout way so that there's explicit no reference to the salaries at all in their budget.
The Palestinian Authority would rather pay terrorists than pay for vaccines. As for the terrorists, then win twice.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr tells “The New York Times” that the Palestinian Authority is changing its “pay for slay” policy, after conveying the opposite message in Arabic.
PA officials told the media that all salaries will soon be paid to PA officials, indicating a possible solution.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Mansour Omar was involved in an attack and transported the terrorist who carried out the attack on the market in Hadera in October 2005 in which six Israelis were killed.
By Aryeh Savir & Baruch Yedid / Tazpit News Agency
Bank branches have informed the former prisoners and their families that they must withdraw the balance of the money from their accounts before they are closed and that the paycheck paid to them by the PA through the bank will be the last.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been trying to hide its payment of salaries to terrorists imprisoned in Israel, from donor countries that support it, an Israeli watchdog has exposed.
The police explained that these were funds “received from a hostile entity.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some things are just more important than a Palestinian state.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The two well-paid terrorists prepared the suicide belts used in the 2003 Tzrifin and Café Hillel terror attacks which killed 16 Israelis including Dr. David Applebaum and his daughter Nava.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The family of the suicide-bomber has received $53,689, while the bombmaker has collected $213,848. Ahlam Tamimi, who planned the attack, had been awarded $51,836.