Pay for slay

PA ordered to pay $655.5 million to Intifada victims after NY Appeals Court reinstates prior ruling

Last week, a federal Court of Appeals judge ruled to reinstate the original 2015 decision of Sokolow v. the Palestinian Authority.

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah (L) and Hamas politburo member Khalil al-Hayya.
Israelis protest outside Maasiyahu prison, central Israel, the possible release of terrorist who tortured and murdered Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam nearly 40 years ago. May 31, 2023.

Family of murdered IDF soldier outraged as terrorist released, entitled to tax-funded service

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah (L) and Hamas politburo member Khalil al-Hayya.

PA paid half a billion shekels to terrorists in pay-for-slay scheme, sources reveal -exclusive

Times Square billboard bringing awareness to the Palestinian Authority's 'Pay for Slay' policy

Times Square billboard targets PA 'pay-for-slay' policy


Palestinian Authority attempting to conceal terrorist stipends - report

Former terrorists will be recruited into the authority's security services as part of this program, which could jeopardize Israeli security and cooperation.

Abbas hugging newly released prisoner  R 465

Murderers of Fogel family to receive raise in pay for slay from PA

They will now each begin earning NIS 6,000 ($1,806) every month.

Mourners stand around the bodies of Ehud Fogel, 36, his wife Ruth, 35, and their children 11-year-old Yoav, 4-year-old Elad, and 3-month-old Hadas during their funeral in Jerusalem March 13th, 2011

PA to pay three months pay for slay salaries to terrorists

The law will state that any person that makes a financial transaction which "supports, promotes, fund or rewards" terror activities will be subject to a prison sentence of up to 10 years

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a virtual meeting with Palestinian factions over Israel and the United Arab Emirates' deal to normalise ties, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 3, 2020

Letters to the Editor December 23, 2020: Shekels for shedding blood

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Israel gives Palestinians tax funds, despite terrorist payments

The Finance Ministry confirmed that Israel paid NIS 3.768 billion to the PA, and only deducted the cost of services provided, not the “pay for slay” funds.

Palestinian women walk past a money changer in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 16, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/File Photo

Katz vows to deduct PA tax funds over terrorists’ salaries

In May, Israel gave the Palestinians an NIS 800 million loan that effectively returned all the tax and tariff funds Israel had previously deducted.

MKs voting in favor of the Pay for Slay bill Wednesday at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee June 27, 2018

PA denies reports it will accept tax revenue from Israel again this month

The PA began refusing to receive the funds earlier this year when Israel began deducting payments to terrorists and their families from tax revenues.

Palestinian women walk past a money changer in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 16, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/File Photo

MKs call for Palestinian prisoners’ board to be designated as terrorist

The Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs holds a "central role" in disseminating the salaries to the families of terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons.

Prison cell block

Congressman calls for PA official to be blacklisted as sponsor of terror

“This vile practice must end, and your administration has the courage and moral clarity to do it.”

Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) speaks to demonstrators following oral arguments in the Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case at the Supreme Court in Washington, US, December 5, 2017.

Court lets state seize ‘pay for slay’ funds from terrorist prisoner

The Defense Ministry said that the incident was in October 2005 and took place in Hadera with Omar helping transport the terrorist.

Money seized by the police and Shin Bet from a terrorist's family in east Jerusalem