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Salute controversy | Netanyahu defends Musk: ‘A great friend of Israel’
January 23, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the defense of billionaire and US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk on Thursday after the latter was accused of making a Nazi salute. “Elon Musk is being falsely smeared,” Netanyahu declared in a post on X. He added: “Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state. “I thank him for this.” READ MORE