Taylor Force

US victims of Palestinian terror sue PLO over 'pay-for-slay' scheme

Families of slain and injured Americans, including Taylor Force’s relatives, filed a US lawsuit accusing the PLO of rewarding terrorists with monthly payments.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and PA President Mahmoud Abbas pose at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit last week. The absence of a firm message does not bode well for either Gaza’s rehabilitation or Saudi normalization, the writer argues.
 Jenin residents protest against arrests made by PA security forces, July 17.

American money ear-marked for PA security used to pay families of terrorists from Jenin - report

 US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas at PA headquarters in Ramallah.

US seeks to financially assist the PA so it can control Gaza after war - WSJ

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestine Authority head Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah last month.

There can be no partnering with the PA - opinion


Why isn't AIPAC lobbying for Taylor Force?

There is a direct connection between Taylor Force and the other recipient of the Elie Wiesel prize at our gala, Yonatan Netanyahu, who was murdered 41 years ago in Entebbe.

The packed hall of the AIPAC 2018 conference

Govt. minister says all countries should pass laws banning 'martyr payments'

Erdan said that the PA’s hand in paying terrorists and their families creates an atmosphere of incitement and cultivates “a culture of hate.”

Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan

Interview: Stabilizing an unstable region

Moshe Ya’alon may be out of politics – for now – but with the INSS, the veteran security expert is flexing his know-how in new and exciting ways.

Moshe Yaalon

Will the Taylor Force Act and UNRWA reform destroy the PA?

America should have learned that the Palestinian Authority believes that there are no consequences for its institutionalized corruption and its compensation system for terrorists and their families.

Palestinians protest poor living conditions at UNRWA’s Rafah office in the southern Gaza Strip. (Sign: The poor pay the costs of division)

Ambassador Friedman adds momentum to bill limiting PA 'martyr' payments

The Taylor Force Act threatens a dramatic cut in aid to the PA if it fails to end its decades-old scheme of compensating families of Palestinians convicted in Israel of murder and terrorism.

David Friedman arrives at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination of to be US ambassador to Israel

Palestinian Authority paid terrorists nearly $350 million in 2017

Defense Ministry exposes Palestinian terror price list of how much prisoners get on crime scale.

An IDF soldier stands next to a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner

Defense Ministry pushing bill cutting PA funds over terrorists’ salaries

The PA pays an estimated NIS 1.2 billion annually to terrorists in Israeli prisons or to the families of those killed by Israel.

Avigdor Liberman

US House okays bill targeting PA funds for terror

The Trump administration has yet to endorse this specific bill, but it has come out in favor of its principles and has not threatened to veto the measure.

Taylor Force, 29, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who went on a stabbing rampage in Jaffa on March 8, 2016

House passes bill targeting PA over terrorism funding

The bill would freeze financial assistance provided by the US absent reform, while retaining aid allotted for security cooperation and some humanitarian relief.

US Congress.

The force to end terrorism

There are many ways to fight terrorism. But there are also steps that can be taken by our lawmakers.

THE US is cracking down on terror finance. (Reuters)