Health Ministry blames local authorities for not doing enough to bring in people to be vaccinated, as 467 doses reportedly wasted in southern cities

Health Ministry says a fifth of Israelis over 60 have received COVID-19 vaccine; Netanyahu: 'My mission is to ensure the continuation of this pace'

New virus patients in capital to be taken outside city; Edelstein: 280,000 vaccinated in 1st week of rollout, including 71,000 over the weekend

6,000 cops to be deployed to enforce closure, with focus on dispersing gatherings and New Year's Eve parties and cracking down on quarantine violations

With shops and nature reserves set to close again on Sunday, people use last chance to shop, visit; police hand out fines to revelers ignoring health rules

Network says at least 266,000 have gotten the shot; Health Ministry doesn't collect data in real time during Shabbat; Israel 2nd globally in number of vaccinated per capita

Chezy Levy says hundreds of test samples undergoing genetic mapping, additional confirmed cases likely

TV report predicts life could return to 'something like normal' by end of Feb. because the at-risk population will be vaccinated and threat of overwhelmed health service will pass

Latest effort to curb coronavirus comes into force on Sunday, December 27, and will remain in force for at least two weeks. These are the restrictions

Scenes demonstrate challenge of instituting a national closure, which perhaps unintentionally lead citizens to gather in large crowds both before and after restrictions take effect