The Israeli vaccine is developed by the Israel Institute for Biological Research. Many other paths to vaccine development are being pursued due to the mutations and appearance of new variants.
The Israeli vaccine is not like Pfizer or Moderna. And according to cited references in this blog,
"Unlike Pfizer and Moderna, the IIBR vaccine uses recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus, an animal virus that does not cause disease in humans and which is similar to the model of a separate vaccine that has already proven to be successful against the deadly Ebola virus"
Details of clinical trials here:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04608305?term=iibr&cond=Covid19&cntry=IL&draw=2&rank=1
Phase III trials are to start in Brazil:
More news here:
https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/vaccines/brilife-coronavirus-vaccine
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