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It's a small, wealthy country with a universal health care system.
That's largely explains how Israel has become a world leader in the cove.
In 19 vaccination drive, it's inoculated 15% of the country's 9.3 million population in about two weeks.
The plan order early pay a lot on digitized distribution.
The first big decision was paying a premium to get early vaccines.
Israeli authorities have not publicly said what they paid for the vaccine developed by Pfizer on by on Tech, but one official claimed it was about $30 per vaccine dose, twice the price Elsewhere.
Pfizer said in a statement that it uses a tiered pricing formula based on volume on delivery dates, but declined to give further details.
The next step was becoming a model.
Israel offered the pharmaceutical companies a quick rollout that could serve as a template for the rest of the world, promising swift results from a small country with a digitized distribution network.
But their vaccination campaign has not been without criticism on hurdles.
Palestinians in the Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip face a long wait for vaccines.
Health officials estimate they will begin receiving doses in February through the World Health Organization.
Netanyahu's opponents also accused his right wing Likud Party of using the vaccination campaign for political gain ahead of a March 23rd election.
They say he lacks a clear, long term strategy for dealing with the impact of covert 19 charges the government denies.
Israel is in its third lock down on faces a recession on high unemployment, though it has avoided the shortages on bottlenecks faced by other countries.
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