Gantz, Ashkenazi violate COVID-19 quarantine regulations - report

• Date: 29 December 2020
• Published date: 29 December 2020
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The two did not enter quarantine despite knowing that they'd been in contact with Blue and White MK Hila Shai-Vazan, who was confirmed as infected last week, at a Blue and White Hanukkah candle lighting party and were seen at a hotel in Jerusalem for two hours after receiving the official order from the Health Ministry to enter quarantine.

A number of MKs and government officials were forced to enter quarantine after Shai-Vazan was confirmed as infected.

Gantz and Ashkenazi claimed that they had received permission to delay entering quarantine, but the Health Ministry denies that this is true, according to Army Radio.

Gantz's office even published a statement on that day saying that he had entered quarantine, despite the fact that he was at the hotel and not in quarantine. Gantz's office told Army Radio that he entered quarantine exactly as Health Ministry regulations require.

Ashkenazi's office told Army Radio that he received the order to enter quarantine while he was at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem and that after he told the epidemiological investigator that the event at which Shai-Vazan was present took place outside and that he did not come into contact with her, he was told that he could wait until further investigations were completed. An hour later, the investigator called Ashkenazi back and informed him that he would still need to enter quarantine after which he immediately left the hotel to enter quarantine...