Short answer: No. As of August 2026, Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince and prime minister, has not normalized relations with Israel, has not visited the country, and continues to condition any future deal on a concrete path to Palestinian statehood. He has at times said Saudi Arabia is moving "closer" to an agreement, and Saudi-US-Israel talks were advancing before October 7, 2023, but since then Riyadh froze the process, and MBS has personally condemned specific Israeli military actions, including the Gaza war and a September 2025 strike on Qatar, while reaffirming support for the Palestinians. His position is best described as strategically open but conditionally opposed, not as support for Israel as it currently stands.
What Mohammed Bin Salman has actually said and done
- September 20, 2023: In a rare interview aired on Fox News from Neom, MBS said normalization talks with Israel were getting "closer" every day, while stressing that "the Palestinian issue is very important, we need to solve that part," according to CNN.
- October 7, 2023: Hours after the Hamas attack on Israel, Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry called for an immediate halt to escalation. Within days, Riyadh paused the normalization talks it had been holding with the US and Israel, and diplomats said derailing that process was among Hamas's goals, per France 24 and The Jewish Chronicle.
- October 24, 2023: In a phone call with President Biden, MBS called for an immediate Gaza ceasefire and a resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The two leaders affirmed working toward a sustainable Israeli-Palestinian peace "as soon as the crisis subsides," per the White House readout reported by The Times of Israel.
- February 3, 2025: Billboards reading "Israel is Ready," showing MBS shaking hands with Donald Trump against an Israeli flag, went up in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Washington, DC, the first time his image appeared on an Israeli billboard. The campaign was produced by the Coalition for Regional Security, an Israeli advocacy group formed after October 7, and was not created, endorsed, or authorized by MBS, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Times of Israel.
- September 9, 2025: After Israel struck Hamas officials in Doha, Qatar, MBS called Qatar's emir to reaffirm Saudi Arabia's "full solidarity," calling the strike "a criminal act and a flagrant violation of international laws" and pledging to place "all capabilities" at Qatar's disposal, per Arab News and The Times of Israel.
- October 12, 2025: A Saudi royal source told Israel's N12 that normalization "likely won't happen under [Prime Minister] Netanyahu's current government," but could occur before the end of October 2026 if a new Israeli government accepted a two-state solution, Gaza and West Bank demilitarization occurred, and Arab-state security guarantees were in place, according to the Jerusalem Post.
- November 18, 2025: On his first US visit in seven years, MBS met Trump at the White House and said Saudi Arabia wants to join the Abraham Accords, but that a clear path to Palestinian statehood is essential. He described the Oval Office exchange as a "healthy discussion," per The Times of Israel.
- January 23, 2026: The ADL publicly warned of a rising volume of antisemitic rhetoric and anti-Abraham Accords messaging from prominent Saudi media figures, analysts, and preachers. The report did not attribute any such statements to MBS himself, and some observers noted a concurrent Saudi-UAE political rift as context, per The Times of Israel and Jewish Insider.
- July 22, 2026: The US and Saudi Arabia signed a 30-year civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. A day later, Trump posted that the deal was "totally subject" to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel, a condition that had not been part of the signed agreement, per CNN.
Where things stand between Saudi Arabia and Israel
Mohammed bin Salman is Saudi Arabia's crown prince and prime minister, the kingdom's de facto ruler under his father King Salman. He is not Jewish and has no Jewish-identity connection; there is no reputable reporting linking him to Jewish ancestry or affiliation. He has never visited Israel, and Saudi Arabia has no diplomatic relations with Israel and does not participate in the Abraham Accords.
Before October 7, 2023, US-brokered Saudi-Israel normalization talks were advancing, and MBS spoke publicly of getting "closer" to a deal. The Hamas attack and the ensuing Gaza war froze that process. Saudi Arabia paused talks, and MBS has since repeatedly tied any normalization to a credible path to Palestinian statehood, a position officials reiterated through 2025 and into 2026. He personally condemned Israel's September 2025 strike on Hamas officials in Doha as a violation of international law and pledged solidarity with Qatar, language that is not consistent with support for Israel.
Saudi Arabia still enforces a boycott of Israel: no diplomatic ties and no direct commercial or travel relations, though Saudi airspace has at times been used for third-country overflights to Israel under specific arrangements, a separate technical matter from normalization or boycott policy. As of January 2026, monitors including the ADL flagged a rise in antisemitic rhetoric from Saudi media commentators, though not attributed to MBS directly, which several analysts linked to an intra-Gulf rift with the UAE rather than to Israel policy itself.
The February 2025 billboard campaign showing MBS's image with an "Israel is Ready" message was produced by an Israeli advocacy coalition, not by MBS or the Saudi government, and does not represent an endorsement by him.
The bottom line
As of August 2026, Mohammed bin Salman does not support Israel in any concrete diplomatic, financial, or public sense: there is no normalization, no visit, no donations, and no event appearances alongside Israeli officials. His public statements describe conditional openness to a future deal tied to Palestinian statehood, paired with sharp condemnation of specific Israeli military actions since October 7, 2023. The honest characterization is strategically open, conditionally opposed, not a supporter of Israel as it currently stands.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
