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Hong Kong/JerusalemCNN —
Elon Musk visited Israel Monday, meeting the country’s leaders and walking through a kibbutz destroyed by Hamas last month as he tried to calm outrage caused by his endorsement of an anti-semitic post on his social media platform, X.
Musk was taken to Kfar Azza — one of the kibbutzim attacked on October 7 — by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The kibbutz was the home of Abigail Edan, a four-year-old American dual citizen abducted by the militant group that day and released Sunday.
In a live online conversation on X with Netanyahu Monday, Musk agreed with the prime minister that Israel must destroy Hamas.
“Those who are intent on murder must be neutralized. Then the propaganda must stop,” Musk said. “They’re just training people to be murderers.”
He also said Gaza must be made “prosperous.”
“If (all) that happens, I think it will be a good future,” he said. “I’d love to help.”
Musk was also scheduled to meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog behind closed doors. The president was intending to emphasize the need to combat rising antisemitism online, his office said in a statement earlier Monday.
In that statement, the president’s office said representatives of the families of hostages held by Hamas were also expected to join the meeting, where they would share “the horrors of the Hamas terror attack, and of the ongoing pain and uncertainty for those held captive.”
During the visit to the destroyed kibbutz, Israeli officials described to Musk what had taken place, the Israeli government press office said.
“The prime minister and Musk then proceeded to the Edan family home, where Musk heard about the family story of four-year-old Abigail Edan, whose parents were murdered and who was kidnapped to Gaza and released yesterday from Hamas captivity,” the press office added.
