Comptroller faults Defense Ministry institute for mishandling project and misleading officials on costs, timetable and ability to produce homegrown vaccine

Prof. Shmuel Shapira, former head of the Defense Ministry’s Biological Institute, calls pharma giant's vaccines 'mediocre,' says company only wanted to 'rake in billions'

Chairman of NRx, pharmaceutical company completing trials for BriLife, suggests vaccine may even work better against variants

Unclear who will replace Shmuel Shapira as head of Institute for Biological Research; rapid inoculation drive has raised doubts about need for domestic shot

Defense Ministry institute to begin second phase of trials, testing coronavirus vaccine on 1,000 people; third phase expected in spring

Shmuel Shapira of Defense Ministry's Institute for Biological Research says shot will only be publicly available in summer, admits 'very minor' side effects detected in 1st trials

Head of Institute for Biological Research tells Knesset committee that trials on locally made drug could begin in October, but phase three testing likely won't be until next year