Health Ministry officials are looking at how many more people were in the synagogue at the time and if the number was higher than the other 10 people allowed for the Yom Kippur hall prayer facilities under the closure.
The Walla story quoted participants at the Yom Kippur branch as saying there were 35 other people in the building.
The minister’s associates said that all the faithful were dressed in a mask and that Gamliel slept in an apartment of a local circle of relatives in the city, parts of which were declared hot spots of the virus. and they were allowed to stay there under lockdown rules.
Gamliel on Monday did not admit to doing anything wrong, but then admitted that he might not have dealt with the stage properly.
“I acted according to the guidelines, I would possibly be wrong in my judgment. I’m sorry, I’ll pay the fine,” he said in a statement.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein called on all elected people to adhere to virus regulations.
“These are commandos written in blood and no one has the privilege of fulfilling them,” Edelstein said.
Dozens of protesters demonstrated near Gamliel’s tel Aviv home on Monday night, asking him to resign.
“It is unacceptable that there is one law for parliamentarians and elected officials, and another for citizens. During lockdown, they come out and we imprison. This is a corrupt government,” a protester named Noya told the Ynet news website.
Several protesters said police had asked them to turn out that they had not strayed more than a mile from their homes, according to blocking rules.
Critics have said Gamliel’s conduct as a cabinet member is inconsistent with expectations that the public will adhere to the restrictions of employer closure.
Netanyahu said he hoped investigators would discover the “full picture” before drawing conclusions about the conduct of Gamliel, a senior official of his Likud party.
“We are all obliged to adhere to regulations, whether with respect to meetings and other coronavirus-like regulations. This includes ministers and knesset members and all public officials,” he said at the start of an assembly of the so-called coronavirus closet, according to his office.
“With regard to Minister Gamliel, I asked him to wait for the findings until the Department of Health’s investigation is complete. I think it’s the right thing to do. We operate on the basis of facts and investigations, not initial reports, and I propose to wait. Soon we’ll get a full picture. “
But the Ministry of Health gave the impression of rejecting the comments, saying that his epidemiological research on Gamliel is complete, but that it is for him to do nothing but seek contacts.
“Any data that is not similar to touch tracking is irrelevant and not documented in the investigation,” the ministry said.
Israel has brought a permanent national blockade that, among other restrictions, limits Israelis to remain within a mile of their homes, by fundamental paintings or needs, and it is also forbidden to stop at other people’s homes.
Gamliel is the prime minister whose COVID-19 infection revealed obvious violations of government restrictions.
In April, then-Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman was diagnosed with COVID-19, allegedly after attending prayer facilities that at the time had been banned by his own ministry during an earlier closure.
Litzman, of the ultra-Orthodox party of Unified Judaism of the Torá, left office in favor of the Ministry of Housing, but resigned last month in protest at existing closure measures and restrictions on synagogue facilities during the high holiday season.
Litzman reportedly among the thousands of people who attended Monday’s mass funeral of a Hasidic rabbi in Ashdod.
Several members of the Knesset also hit the virus, the recent highest of which Ayman Odeh, who heads the Arab-majority party.
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid announced Monday that DEPUTY Mickey Levy would resign from the Knesset’s coronavirus committee “by mutual agreement” after violating blocking rules.
During the first previous close this year, there were several reports of violations of the closure by politicians and their families, Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.
Stuart Winer contributed to this report.