Soros, 92, said he previously didn't want his Open Society Foundations (OSF) to be taken over by one of his five children.
No single person has done more to damage Israel’s standing in the world, and especially among so-called progressives, than George Soros.
Elon Musk's indirect attack by innuendo took place against the backdrop of the extraordinary growth of hate speech and antisemitic tweets on Twitter since he took over the company.
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen: "Soros is not someone who needs the protection of the State of Israel."
MIDDLE ISRAEL: Nothing can excuse Elon Musk’s antisemitic libel against the world’s richest Jew
Chikli’s statement comes two days after Musk compared Soros, a billionaire and Holocaust survivor who is at the center of multiple antisemitic conspiracy theories, to a comic book villain.
Musk tweeted “ADL should just drop the ‘A.'” The tweet implied that the group, which is the most prominent antisemitism watchdog in the country, should instead be named the “Defamation League.”
The attacks on Soros come as Twitter has faced criticism over its lax hate speech policies in the months since Musk bought the platform last year.
Musk’s tweet “smelled of antisemitism...[and] immediately brought a flood of antisemitic conspiracy theories,” the Foreign Ministry said.
Vice Media Group listed both assets and liabilities in the range of $500 million to $1 billion ahead of a sale to a consortium, including George Soros's hedge fund.