Professor Shmuel Shapira, Director General of the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Israel between 2013 and 2021, says his institute was half way to developing an Israeli made vaccine when the government opted to turn country into Pfizer's experimental laboratory.... the rest is now history

Professor Shmuel Shapira, M.D., MPH, is the founder and head of the Department of Military Medicine of the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine and IDF Medical Corps. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University in Israel.

Professor Shapira previously served as Deputy Director General of the Hadassah Medical Organization and as the Director of the Hebrew University Hadassah School of Public Health. He is a Full Colonel (Res.) in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and served as the IDF Head of Trauma Branch. He is an authority on terror, trauma, emergency medicine and military medicine, and instructs medical students, physicians, EMS, medical leaders, and rescue teams on terror medicine, management of mass casualty’s events, military medicine, advanced trauma life support, and risk management.

He has published more than 110 articles and is the editor of Essentials of Terror Medicine, Best Practice for Medical Management of Terror Incidents and Medical Response to Terror Threats.

He is the author of The Pandemic Circus (Yediot Books, Rishon LeZion 2021).