Devanjana Mukherjee, Khabri Media
While the world closely watched the unfolding events in the region, Musk’s visit took on a symbolic significance that went beyond the realms of business and technology.
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Billionaire Elon Musk landed in Tel Aviv on Monday, beginning a visit during which Israeli leaders plan to bring his attention to the plight of hostages held in war-torn Gaza and discuss rising antisemitism online.
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s office on Sunday announced that Musk would be coming to meet the head of state. Musk will also meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Avi Scharf, an aviation expert on X (formerly Twitter) posted that a plane carrying the billionaire, who also runs Tesla and SpaceX, had touched down in the morning.
His visit coincides with a four-day truce in an Israeli war with Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza during which 40 of the 240 hostages Israel says have been held by Hamas have returned to Israel.
During the visit, before the war, about 200 people protested efforts by Netanyahu’s right-wing government to curb the powers of Israeli courts. They gathered outside Tesla’s California factory.
As per Reuters reports, on November 15 Musk agreed that falsely claimed Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people, saying the user who referenced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory was speaking “the actual truth”.
The sides are currently in a truce under which Israel has been recovering some of the 240 people Hamas took hostage during a cross-border killing spree on October 7. In exchange, Israel has been freeing some Palestinians jailed on security grounds.
