In a statement issued by the State to the High Court, it was explained that the Corona crisis has led to a steep decline in PA revenues. Sabbath

First Announcement: Israel intends to transfer NIS 800 million to the Palestinian Authority as of Sunday, the state said on Thursday (Thursday) in a statement to the High Court. In its response to the petition, the state explained that the Corona crisis had led to a steep decline in Palestinian revenues, This includes tax revenues that Israel charges for.

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Against this backdrop, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon explained, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed him to loan the Palestinians NIS 800 million. According to a statement to the High Court, the agreement will be signed this Sunday, and the amount will be given in a couple of beats in the coming months. It is also claimed that the loan is actually a down payment, at the expense of tax payments to be offset in the coming months. The move is in coordination with Defense Minister Naftali Bennett Meir Ben Shabbat.

It should be noted that months before the Corona epidemic, the Palestinian Authority suffered a severe economic crisis. The main reason for the crisis is the offset of the tax money that Israel transfers to the Palestinians due to continued payment of terrorist salaries. Under the terrorist offsets law, Israel has reduced NIS 700 million from the tax transfers it collects for the PA - an amount that will now be repaid when the loan is granted. 

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The Lavi organization said: "Transferring close to NIS 1 billion to the Palestinian Authority for funding the terrorists' salaries is unacceptable. The Palestinian Authority may not give huge salaries to Jewish murderers and weep over difficulties. Transferring a billion shekels to the Palestinian Authority in this blatant hijacking is a blow to the recent offset of terrorist salaries law that was recently enacted and to the families of terror victims. "

Meirav and Herzl Hajaj, parents of the late Lieutenant Song Hajaj, members of the "Choosing Life" forum petitioning the High Court against the transfer of funds, said: "It is impossible that when hundreds of thousands of families and businesses in Israel are facing economic collapse and are facing a broken trough "The Israeli government chooses to give NIS 800 million a month to a Palestinian terrorist-sponsored grant, while the PA continues to pay a salary to terrorists who murdered our children. As a result, the Israeli government and we, the citizens of Israel, in our tax money - pay the salaries of our child murderers."

Attorney Yitzhak Bam filed the petition on behalf of the Lavi organization and the "Choosing Life" forum.