Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has spoken with Pfizer CEO Albert Burla several times over the past week about replenishing Israel’s vaccine supply and a possible vaccine swap deal with another country.
Israel currently has 1.4 million vaccine doses that expire on July 31 and therefore is seeking to trade its supply for a future shipment of vaccines to another country. Any deal would have to be approved by Pfizer.
The failure to reach such a deal would mean that vaccines purchased for hundreds of millions of dollars may be discarded.
Israel was in advanced talks with the UK last week on a vaccine swap deal but Health Ministry Director-General Chezy Levy said on Sunday that the deal fell through. Later reports said that Israel is now in talks on a possible deal with two other countries.
“We are negotiating with other countries,” Levy told Radio 103FM. “We’re dealing with this day and night.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Hey there Mr. Prime Minister with 7% of the people having voted for you, the CEO of Pfizer is an individual who is a grown not a kid like you who blackmailed his constituency to vote for you and then did a 180, fooled them all just to get the premiership. You’re a blatant liar and like Korach – and it was the week we read the Torah portion of Korach – you’re lust for power will get you to do and say anything!