Elon Musk met Benjamin Netanyahu as we speak because the X proprietor toured websites of the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel.
The Occasions of Israel reported that the Israeli Prime Minister attended a tour of an Israeli Kibbutz ravaged by the October 7 onslaught alongside Musk, earlier than Musk heard briefings from an area council chief and a consultant of the Israeli Defence Forces concerning the massacres within the Kfar Aza kibbutz.
Musk’s tour of Israel may also see him meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog together with different Israelis whose relations have been held by Hamas in Gaza.
Herzog’s workplace introduced the assembly on Sunday night time, in accordance with Reuters, including: “Of their assembly, the president will emphasize the necessity to act to fight rising antisemitism on-line.”
The transfer comes at an attention-grabbing time for Musk’s relationship with the Jewish group. The X proprietor not too long ago reposted a Twitter person who wrote: “Jewish communities have been pushing the precise form of dialectical hatred in opposition to whites that they declare to need folks to cease utilizing in opposition to them.”
A wealth of main manufacturers subsequently pulled adverts from X together with the likes of Disney and Paramount, and Musk has filed a lawsuit.
Musk met Netanyahu previous to the October 7 assaults when Netanyahu visited a Tesla facility on a U.S. tour which included a gathering with Joe Biden.
Musk’s go to to Israel comes off the again of a momentous weekend after the primary group of hostages have been launched from Gaza six weeks after they have been taken, in return for a pause within the preventing and the return of Palestinian detainees in the other way. The ultimate group of hostages to be freed beneath the preliminary deal between Israel and Hamas is anticipated to emerge from Gaza later as we speak, with Hamas saying it’s looking for to increase the present four-day pause in preventing and improve the variety of hostages launched.
