“A young Israeli woman was murdered in a brutal terror attack,” wrote Uwe Becker, mayor of the central German city of Frankfurt, on Facebook on Monday. “Now imagine, that European tax money will at least indirectly go to the terrorist and his family, not to the family of the victim. This must end!”

The demand echoed concerns frequently shared by Israeli officials, including in the wake of Ansbacher’s murder, that the Palestinian Authority (PA) incentivizes the killing of Israeli civilians by paying monthly salaries to their attackers — a policy dubbed by critics as “pay-to-slay.”

Amid pressure from right-wing lawmakers and families of terror victims, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Sunday to implement a law passed by the Knesset in July, which aims to slash the tax funds that Israel regularly collects on behalf of the PA by the amount paid to terrorists.

“Next Sunday, I will convene the Security Cabinet, and we will approve the decision necessary to cut the funds,” Netanyahu said. “The funds will be cut — let no one have any doubt — and at the start of next week.”

The Israeli measure was inspired by last year’s passage of the Taylor Force Act, US federal legislation that limits aid to the PA until it ceases paying stipends to terrorists and their families. The act was named after a US Army veteran and graduate student killed by a knife-wielding Palestinian assailant in Tel Aviv in 2016.

Palestinian officials have defended the salaries as a form of social welfare, with PA President Mahmoud Abbas pledging last July, “Even if we only have a penny left, we are going to first put it toward these payments.”

The PA’s minister for civilian affairs, Hussein al-Sheikh, said in an Arabic-language interview published by Agence France-Presse on Sunday that Abbas was prepared to refuse any tax revenue collected by Israel if a single penny was deducted from it.