(Globes) Lior Greenbaum - Palestinian security men have begun saluting PA Minister of Finance Dr. Salam Fayyad in recent months, showing their appreciation for his halting the theft of their salaries by senior officers. Prior to a reform of the payments of salaries to 55,000 security men, the men were paid in cash by their commanders, who diverted a large proportion of the men's pay into their own pockets. With salaries now paid directly into the men's bank accounts, policemen received their full salaries for the first time and discovered that their take-home pay immediately soared.
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