Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the meeting of the ministerial committee on the coronavirus pandemic citing a matter of national importance.
"You will hear about it later," Netanyahu told ministers as he made his exit.
Ministers were deliberating new health directives regarding the congregation of people indoors.
Before his departure, the prime minister heard criticism by ultra-Orthodox Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman who demanded more people be allowed in synagogues. "We will discuss the matter," Netanyahu told Litzman who threatened to withhold support from any government decisions.