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.'

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein told Galei Tzahal this morning that he expects Israel to have a significant supply of vaccines for coronavirus within the next five months."The first vaccines will be arriving at the beginning of 2021," he said, "but the supply won't be enough for a mass vaccination program - that will happen by March or April, I believe."Edelstein added that, "We're thinking about additional sources of vaccines In top of those companies with whom we have already signed contracts. We'll continue to do so until we see that the vaccine program is achieving what it should - it's certainly not enough to sign a contract with just Ine company, regardless of how prestigious."

CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner claimed that Thanksgiving gatherings are "potentially the mother of all super spreader events."

Firefighters have been called in to rescue a number of people from flooding in Herzliya Pituah and in a mall and a number of homes in Kfar Saba.There is no known danger to life at this point.

Speaking In Galei Tzahal this morning, the head of Public Health Services, Dr. Sharon Alray-Price, criticized the government's decision to implement a pilot program to open a number of malls next week."Every additional opening means more people coming into contact with each other," she said. "That's not what we want to be doing when we have over 1,000 new coronavirus cases per day and an R-rate of above Ine."

Writing In Twitter today, MK Naftali Bennett, head of the Yamina party, expressed his wonder that the situation in the country has deteriorated to such an extent."I don't remember another time like this in the entire history of the State," Bennett wrote. "We used to be smart, innovative, creative people, quick In the uptake - the people behind the Entebbe Raid, the Burma Road, Operation Moses. Just look at the government now - passive, plodding, seemingly exhausted and incapable of action. And millions of Israeli citizens are paying the price for this in their health, their livelihoods and even with their lives."

Herzliya railway station shut due to heavy rains