Yuli Edelstein says 'the vaccines will save all of us,' believes this trumps religious rules; chief Sephardic rabbi denies request was made to approve vaccinations on weekends

Health Ministry okays use of up to 6 doses per bottle, which could significantly boost vaccine supply; PM hopes that by next weekend, 100,000 Israelis will be immunized a day

Health minister says vaccines to be made available to all age groups in 1-2 weeks, says appointments for elderly and at-risk groups will be moved up

Officials said to fear recent spike in Haredi infections is result of variant; Health Ministry said to recommend 25-day shut down of all non-essential public life, starting Sunday

Health Ministry says move is aimed at 'significantly' boosting pace of inoculation drive

After just 3 days, vaccination newbie has achieved half the coverage of Britain, which got started 2 weeks earlier

Cabinet to meet Wednesday afternoon to make decision, with leaders reportedly at odds over timing for reimposing sweeping restrictions

While some community members have questions about safety and long-term effects of rapidly produced COVID-19 vaccine, others have a long anti-vax history

Uday Azizi says he's feeling fine after receiving quadruple dose in error, will still likely need to get follow-up injection in 3 weeks

Head of German pharmaceutical company says it will take another two weeks to get enough data to know for sure if inoculation effective against more contagious mutated strain