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Netanyahu, Musk Discuss AI and Smart Transportation in Call From Florida

Netanyahu and Musk aim to position Israel as a global AI leader while promoting smart transportation; Musk endorsed Israel’s self-driving vehicle law last month.

  • On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke from Florida with Elon Musk, joined by Transportation Minister Miri Regev and National AI Directorate head Erez Eskel, and arranged Musk's participation in Israel's Smart Transportation Conference scheduled for March.
  • Benjamin Netanyahu framed the talks as an effort to boost Israel's AI leadership, saying, `We intend to catapult Israel forward and turn it into a global leader in the field, exactly as we did with cyber and other technologies.`
  • Musk's endorsements and technology deployments indicate why Israel courted him, as Elon Musk endorsed the Israeli self-driving vehicles law last month and xAI recently integrated the Grok chatbot.
  • Debate over battlefield AI use remains central to the talks, as critics of AI-assisted targeting say it misidentified targets while the Israeli military asserts it minimized civilian casualties in Gaza.
  • Following prior high-profile encounters and defenses of Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, spoke with Elon Musk shortly before Netanyahu's Monday meeting with President Donald Trump.
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kikar.co.il broke the news in on Monday, December 29, 2025.
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