In what they describe as social security payments, the PA hands out monthly rewards to Palestinians (and their families) who carry out terror attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.
“Yesterday I signed an order doubling the amount,” Smotrich said in a notice he sent out to the press on Thursday morning.
The committee vote on the bill came just a few days after a series of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem in which seven people were killed.
The Prime Minister's Office published information regarding the sanctions against the Palestinian Authority on Friday afternoon.