Minister Bennett initiated the move, which will cut 150 million shs of tax money that Israel transfers to the PA • The amount will be added to the offset from 2018 and will amount to 650 million shs.

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Following a discussion of the political-security cabinet that was held on Sunday, and following a report last night, the ministers approved the report presented by Defense Minister MK Naftali Bennett regarding the NIS 150 million that the Palestinian Authority is giving to wounded terrorists or shaheeds and their families. Approved today, the amount of tax money Israel will transfer to the Palestinian Authority will be deducted.

Deputy Defense Minister and Initiator of Offsets Salary Offset Law, Avi Dichter: "I congratulate Minister Bennett on bringing the report to the Cabinet for approval following a law I passed in the Knesset with MK Stern. For too long we have allowed the Palestinian Authority to pay salaries to terrorists. This celebration is over with The law we passed in the Knesset. As long as the Palestinian Authority continues to pay salaries to terrorists, we will deduct tax money until the last shekel! In the war for the protection of Israeli citizens, there will be no compromises. "

NIS 150 million proposed by Minister Bennett to offset the tax money that the Palestinian Authority transferred to the families of terrorists and wounded by terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians in 2018. The report of the National Counter Terrorism Center (IDF) in the Defense Ministry in coordination with the GSS, IDF "L, the Israel Police and IPS.

Just recently, Defense Minister Bennett addressed the issue in his Facebook account, writing: "In the coming days, we will be spending NIS 149 million of PA money they transfer to families of wounded or killed terrorists during a terrorist attack against us. This is another step in the economic war we are waging against the terrorists. It pays to murder Jews. We just started. "

The new amount will be added to the previous amount, and will amount to about NIS 650 million annually in 2018. After the approval of Cabinet Ministers, the amount of tax money Israel will transfer to the Palestinian Authority will be deducted and frozen.

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The move is being added to a series of actions led by Minister Bennett in the economic sphere against terrorism, after he signed initial orders of its kind in recent weeks to pursue terrorists around the world and last week signed an order deciding funds from Israeli Arab terrorists.

According to the Palestinian Freeze Fund for Terrorism Law, approved in July 2018, at the end of each year, the Minister of Defense will approve a political-security cabinet report detailing the total amount of PA paid to terrorists and their families in the past year.

The following year, an amount of 1/12 of the total amount stipulated in the report will be frozen each month from the tax money that Israel transfers to the Palestinian Authority.

So far, Israel has only offset the salaries transferred to Palestinian prisoners, released prisoners and their families, which totaled NIS 500 million in 2018.

As published in "Israel Today" last July, half of the terrorists' salary cut offset is not implemented. The law, which was approved a year ago in the Knesset, and its implementation started late - in mid-2019 - consists of two parts. The part implemented requires a deduction of tax money against the salaries paid by Palestinians to living terrorists. The second installment that is not implemented is the offset of the tax money for the terror allowances granted by the Palestinian Authority to terrorists killed or killed.

So far, only the first part, amounting to NIS 700 million a year, has been carried out. In accordance with the Cabinet decision, the Minister of Finance, Kahlon, has offset the Palestinian tax money and those in response returned the entire amount.