Health Ministry chief confirms negotiations with US company to procure coronavirus shot, which preliminary data has indicated is over 90% effective

Analysis from independent data monitoring board looks at 94 infections recorded so far in study of nearly 44,000 people; company says no participants became severely ill

CEO Rotstein says medical center will seek Israeli Health Ministry approval, and will offer doses if trials show it is safe and effective

Effi, 26, who hasn't seen his 90-year-old grandfather in a year, says he joined trial 'for every Jewish family divided by the pandemic'

24 hours after receiving the first dose at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Segev Harel is discharged, hopes 'we will bring the vaccine to Israel and to the whole world'

Netanyahu says development of vaccine will be 'the true exit from the coronavirus crisis'; Gantz says volunteer implored him to help Israelis suffering economic effects of pandemic

Segev Harel, 26, tapped to be inoculated for COVID-19 at Sheba Hospital on Sunday as clinical trial gets underway

Tests discover Boaz Koldoner has coronavirus antibodies, indicating he already had the virus; he encourages others to volunteer for human trials

Israel has started producing its new coronavirus vaccine. Will it work? Boaz Kolodner and 80 other Israelis have volunteered their immune systems to find out

Governments rush to reimpose infection-control measures with pandemic having infected more than 44 million people and killed close to 1.2 million, and counting