@kernowlassThank you for your answer. It turns out that in Israel, PayPal won't accept family payments, so they convert it without telling you -- or at least it was not clear to us -- to a merchant payment (which was one possibility that you mentioned). The recipient (if he uses the cheapest option) pays up to around 7.5% including the fee for receiving and an enforced disadvantageous conversion rate. Anyway, it is good that we made this $10 payment precisely to see what PayPal might do. We'll look around for other options.
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