Reuven Azar, a national security aide who has been closely involved in managing the coronavirus crisis, visited a supermarket in a Jerusalem suburb on Friday despite the mandated quarantine order, Israeli media reported.

Netanyahu’s office did not deny that Azar broke quarantine, but said in a statement that he claimed to have been confused by the government’s lockdown order that went into effect on Friday.

In a statement, it said Azar was reprimanded “so that cases like this aren’t repeated.”

But days before, Azar reportedly left his Washington D.C. hotel to go for a run, in violation of the office’s own regulations for the trip.

Source: AP