Manufacturing error clouds vaccine study results as AstraZeneca and Oxford University acknowledge mistake.

Health Ministry Director claims vaccines won't be forced, but Dr. Eyal Zimlichman tells Knesset committee 'they'll understand themselves.'

On a visit to a site that will be used to store coronavirus vaccines, Health Ministry director-general Prof. Hezi Levy stressed that Israel is still seeking new sources of coronavirus vaccines, despite already having signed a number of contracts with companies from several countries."We're still In the look-out for more vaccines," he said, "and we're making progress. It's a complicated matter and we still have a long way to go," he stressed.

Speaking In Galei Tzahal today, MK Ayelet Shaked sharply criticized the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, and specifically its policies regarding the aviation industry."Everything related to entering the country was messed up by the government. It took them six months to set up the coronavirus testing laboratory at Ben Gurion Airport, and yet, it's still possible to bypass a test by promising to go into isolation for two weeks," she alleged. "This is an absurd situation, and the result is that skies are effectively still closed."

"We do not see the light at the end of the tunnel here we already see a very large torch."

Most of today's rain fell in the south.Today's totals from around the country are as follows: Negba , 118 mm (4.6 inches) Ashkelon, 114 mm (4.5 inches) Gesher Haziv, 88 mm (3.5 inches) Ein Hashofet, 66 mm (2.6 inches) Tel Aviv, 60 mm (2.4 inches) Jerusalem, 23 mm (0.9 inches).

According to a report in the Haaretz newspaper, the far-left Meretz party is considering incorporating Arabs into its party list.The report states that the matter has been under consideration since the beginning of November.

The grotesque "Deadly Exchange" libel holds Israel responsible for racism targeting black Americans. Op-ed.