Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon last Thursday evening signed a transfer of 120 million shekels from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) tax money as emergency aid to the PA in light of the coronavirus crisis.
Barak Ravid, the political correspondent for Channel 13 News, reported that IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Gen. Kamil Abu Rukun, as well as other security officials, spoke with Kahlon and expressed concern that the coronavirus crisis was exacerbating the economic crisis in Judea and Samaria and could lead to the collapse of the PA.
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