Senior police officer on people breaking restrictions: 'Everyone says they are going to help grandma, and then we check and find she died years ago'

Health minister says 1,817,000 people have received initial shot of vaccine as rollout of 2nd dose begins; health official says impact of inoculations should be seen in 10 days

Netanyahu is once again the first to get Pfizer shot, declares that with new deal that sees vaccines streaming in, all Israelis could be fully immunized within two months

Ministry says 4 cases of highly contagious variant discovered, but stresses no evidence that it causes more severe illness

Health Ministry's Alroy-Preis says no private information will be handed over to pharma giant, data will be used to assess when herd immunity achieved, infection curve broken

Netanyahu and Edelstein to get Pfizer's second dose Saturday; 1.7 million Israelis have been vaccinated, but infections still near all-time high

With Pfizer to ship millions of doses from Sunday, Israel will be first in world out of pandemic, PM says; will share data with firm, acting as 'model country' for global strategy

Police to deploy across country to enforce new restrictions beginning midnight; Health Ministry figures suggest slight slowdown in spread of virus

Sharon Alroy-Preis says unclear what impact vaccination has on COVID variant, but says it may offer less protection against mutation

First shipment of vaccine set to arrive Thursday after the Jewish state, pushing ahead with inoculation campaign, approved it earlier this week