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By Michelle Toh, Lauren Izso and Alex Stambaugh, CNN

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Updated 5:59 AM EST, Mon November 27, 2023

Hong Kong CNN  — 

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is expecting to meet with Elon Musk on Monday as the world’s richest mancontinues to face a firestorm of criticism over his public endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory on his social media platform, X.

Muskis scheduled to meet with Herzog behind closed doors during a visit to Israel on Monday afternoon, where the president will emphasize the need to combat rising antisemitism online, according to the president’s office.

In a statement, the president’s office said that 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 on October 7, and of the ongoing pain and uncertainty for those held captive.”

Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment through X or two of his other most prominent companies, Tesla and SpaceX. X and Tesla no longer maintain regular communications with the media, following Musk’s takeover of the social platform last year and the automaker’s disbanding of its public relations team in 2020.

The billionaire’s visit to Israel comes more than a week after he agreed with the claim that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites,” leading to a rebuke from the White House and a major exodus of advertisers on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

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