On this national day of prayer, we should be thankful for the upcoming Israeli COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Shahar, one of the scientists at MIGAL, the Israeli research institute that developed this vaccine, saw God’s hand in it:
“It’s a little bit like fate that we were working on this coronavirus vaccine at the same time that the world was suddenly hit by this epidemic of coronavirus for humans.”
The Defense Ministry on Wednesday night denied reports that the Israel Institute for Biological Research was closing in on developing a vaccine for the coronavirus, saying the process was proceeding on schedule but would still take time.
“There has been no breakthrough in the efforts of the Institute for Biological Research to find a vaccine for the coronavirus or to develop a testing kit. The institute’s activities are being carried out on an orderly schedule and they will take time,” said the ministry.
Most experts around the world have estimated that the process of developing, approving, manufacturing and distributing a working vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus will take roughly a year, if not longer.
On Thursday, the director-general of the Health Ministry, who has led the fight against the spread of the coronavirus, said he believed this one-year estimate to be correct.
“My working assumption is that this cannot happen in the coming year,” Moshe Bar Siman-Tov told Army Radio in an interview.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/defense-ministry-denies-breakthrough-on-vaccine-for-covid-19/
No wonder! This is a report of about a different institute that is central Israel, not the MIGDAL institute in the Galilee.