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Within weeks of President Biden imposing financial sanctions on Israelis<\/a> accused of violent assaults in the occupied West Bank, crowdfunding campaigns on behalf of two of the men had collected the equivalent of more than $170,000.<\/p>\n Far-right Israelis pledged the funds in a show of support for the settlers, whose efforts to exert Israeli control over lands in the West Bank have often involved maintaining illegal outposts and assaulting and intimidating Palestinians. But the donations have become the focus of a legal battle after an Israeli credit card company balked at transferring the funds.<\/p>\n Cal, the credit card company processing the donations for Yinon Levi, one of the settlers hit with sanctions<\/a>, refused to send the money designated for Mr. Levi and stated that it would reimburse those who had donated, according to the nonprofit group that set up the crowdfunding campaign. The group appealed to an Israeli court, arguing that the donations were intended for Mr. Levi\u2019s family, including his three children, and should not be affected by the U.S. restrictions.<\/p>\n Last week, a court in Tel Aviv issued a temporary injunction while it hears arguments in the matter.<\/p>\n The sanctions that the Biden administration announced on Feb. 1 barred four Israelis from the U.S. financial system, and some Israeli banks have enacted restrictions on the men in order to not run afoul of the American measures.<\/p>\n Mr. Levi, whom the U.S. State Department accused of leading settler groups in attacks on Palestinian and Bedouin civilians, told ABC News<\/a> that he had been unable to access his money in Israel and would struggle to pay workers on his farm. David Chai Chasdai, who the State Department said had led a deadly riot in the Palestinian town of Huwara, told an Israeli television channel that he couldn\u2019t pay his phone bills or his children\u2019s kindergarten fees.<\/p>\n