Khaled bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud is one of the most popular and richest Businessman who was born on January 10, 1962 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The prisoner-exchange agreement signed between Israel and Hamas in October 2011 that arranged for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and over 1,000 mainly Palestinian and Arab-Israeli prisoners was received with disapproval by some members of the Israeli public. Subsequent to this exchange, according to comments made by Saudi cleric Awad Al-Qarni and reiterated by Prince Khaled, one Israeli family offered $100,000 for the capture of a Palestinian man released under the deal who they believed was responsible for the 1998 death of one of their relatives. As of late October 2011, news agencies were reporting at least two such $100,000 bounties on-offer by Israeli extremist groups for the killing of Palestinians who were released in the exchange and who they believe to have been responsible for the killing of Israelis.
In December 2017, Khaled bin Talal was arrested for opposing the government’s decision to remove the power of arrest from the Islamic religious police. After almost a year, in November 2018, he was freed from detention, after pressure on Mohammad bin Salman due to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
It has been reported that he was re-arrested 4 days after his father’s death in late December 2018.
Also, on 29 October 2011, Prince Khaled stated that he would give $900,000 for the capture of any Israeli soldier for use as bargaining leverage in potential future negotiations with Israel for the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, variously estimated in late October 2011 as between 5,000 and 7,000 persons. Details provided about his announcement varied considerably among the many media outlets that covered it, with some apparent contradictions among them, and with some reports excluding any mention of the previous bounty offers made by Israeli groups that the Prince said prompted his offer.
In what he said was a response to the $1 million bounty offered by Israelis for the killing of Saudi cleric Awad Al-Qarni, Prince Khaled increased the cleric’s offer of $100,000 for the capture of an Israeli soldier by $900,000, thus bringing the combined amount offered by the two men up to the same $1 million figure offered for the cleric’s death. The Prince made the announcement in a 29 October 2011 telephone call to the Saudi kingdom’s private al-Daleel television station.
His son, Alwaleed bin Khalid bin Talal Al Saud, suffered from a traffic accident which caused him to be in a coma, and he was lying at the Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, but has reportedly been moved home in early 2016 after a decade in the hospital as a “brain dead” patient.
