A video filmed through a protester showed Luk and Ofer Golan, the spokesman for the Netanyahu family, moving away from the demonstration near the prime minister’s apartment on Sunday night. Weekly protests on Saturday night attracted some 5,000 more people on Sunday. , despite a new national blockade that began on Friday.
One of the teams leading the ongoing protests against Netanyahu accused Luk and Golan of attending the rally to film an organization of suspected coronavirus deniers as part of efforts to discredit the protests.
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The Twelfth Channel quoted Luk as saying to his “close collaborators”: “The commands I won have replaced several times, but I deserve to have been more careful. I regret having an attack tool opposite the Prime Minister, and in any case I will pay the fine on my own initiative.
Netanyahu and his supporters said the protests were a major vector of infection, fitness officials said no new infections had been attributed to the demonstrations until now.
“Topaz Luk arrived to carry out a coronavirus check in Jerusalem according to the commands he obtained from the Ministry of Health, on his return from the delegation to Washington and then back home,” Netanyahu’s Likud said in a statement.
He also claimed that Golan did not have to be quarantined, but did not explain why he was with Luk and did not directly address the fact that he had filmed the demonstration.
Despite Likud’s statement that Luk will undergo a COVID-19 test, public broadcaster Kan said it had been tested at 9:30 p. m. , an hour before being noticed with a camera at the event.
The media also noted that the control site is located in the Prime Minister’s office, about 1. 6 kilometers from the Paris Square.
Photos on social media showed Luk filming the mask of several protesters while standing at the demonstration.
Following separate reports of Azar’s quarantine violation, Netanyahu’s workplace said a “clarification” had been made with the lead assistant. He said he had not been informed of the Health Department’s determination that the Prime Minister and his assistants should be quarantined, after The Prime Minister’s Workplace said they would begin to adhere to blockade regulations across the country before they take effect on Friday.
“Azar has been called to order through his superiors so that such incidents do not happen again,” the PMO said in a statement.
While in Washington, Azar also violated the Prime Minister’s workplace regulations on coronavirus as he left the hotel where the Israeli delegation was staying in Washington.
The Israeli delegation was subjected to strict regulations that provided for the keeping of small groups, called capsules, and not leaving the hotel premises so as not to be forced to self-quarantine upon their return from the United States.