Article in Tablet magazine uses PMW findings on PA's "Pay-For-Slay" program
Family of Palestinian Youth
Who Murdered an Israeli Father of Two
the Latest to Benefit
From the PA’s Pay-for-Slay Program
Last Friday, Yotam Ovadia wanted to do something nice for his wife. Cooking a surprise romantic dinner, he thought, would be a wonderful way to spend Shabbat. He bought all the ingredients, and stored them at his parents’ house nearby. Then, in the evening, he told his wife, Tal, that he was going out for a bit and will return soon.
He never did. Walking in the streets of his community, he ran into Muhammad Tarek Dar Yusuf, a 17-year-old Palestinian from a nearby village. Yusuf wrestled Ovadia to the ground, and then, producing a long knife, stabbed him in the head, the heart, the neck, and the lungs. Passersby managed to shoot and kill Yusuf, but Tal, running out, saw her husband and realized he wasn’t going to make it. He passed away a short while later.
But while Ovadia’s family mourns, Yusuf’s has cause to celebrate. According to Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority’s official daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, declared Yusuf a martyr, a designation that comes with a hefty financial reward: Yusuf’s family will receive a one-time bonus of $1,643, followed by a monthly salary for life of $383, more than half the average Palestinian’s salary. According to the PA’s ghoulish pay-for-slay program, had Yusuf been successful in his quest to kill more Jews on his rampage, he would’ve earned his family more money, as Mahmoud Abbas’ government incentivizes murder by increasing the financial compensation to the families of terrorists for each Jew slaughtered.
[https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/267564/family-of-palestinian-youth-who-murdered-an-israeli-father-of-two-the-latest-to-benefit-from-the-pas-pay-for-slay-program]
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