They probably ordered 10x the amount needed to give everybody double doses, and then they set 95% of them on fire so the palestinians couldn't have any
This is the source for the graphic above which says Israel has a confirmed number of 18 million doses purchased.
Although they, according to this, aim to purchase more in the near future:
“There are plans for a very large additional purchase spanning tens of millions of vaccine doses,” said Katz.
Thus far, close to four million Israelis have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, according to data released by the Ministry of Health Tuesday morning.
More than half of those, or roughly 2.3 million people, have received both the first and second dose of the vaccine.
They handled it poorly at first, then imposed strict lockdowns, which lead to protests. Different communities have responded differently. Religious groups ignoring lockdown, but also living in larger households, lead to higher rates of infection there, leading to stricter and longer lockdowns. This was seen as discrimination, leading to more protests and non-compliance in these communities. Surveilance and checkpoint systems originally designed for the occupation were repurposed to impliment the lockdown, leading to privacy and rights violation concerns. Lockdowns also came at a convenient time for the government, amidst protests over corrution.
Their response has mainly been shit, swinging back and forth between the most and least extreme options because the government didn't know what they were doing. They don't want to inconvenience people because they can't afford to alienate voters, but also can't afford to be seen as failing.
Vaccines are their off-ramp to the crisis, eliminating Covid as a political issue. They have the resources and the international political capital to make it happen, while most others don't.
There's also rumours they had to buy a bunch of vaccines to give to Syria as part of a prisoner exchange last weekend.
How does Israel compare? seen as the west sees them as the gold standard in all of this
They probably ordered 10x the amount needed to give everybody double doses, and then they set 95% of them on fire so the palestinians couldn't have any
This is the source for the graphic above which says Israel has a confirmed number of 18 million doses purchased.
Although they, according to this, aim to purchase more in the near future:
Israel's been interesting in all of this.
They handled it poorly at first, then imposed strict lockdowns, which lead to protests. Different communities have responded differently. Religious groups ignoring lockdown, but also living in larger households, lead to higher rates of infection there, leading to stricter and longer lockdowns. This was seen as discrimination, leading to more protests and non-compliance in these communities. Surveilance and checkpoint systems originally designed for the occupation were repurposed to impliment the lockdown, leading to privacy and rights violation concerns. Lockdowns also came at a convenient time for the government, amidst protests over corrution.
Their response has mainly been shit, swinging back and forth between the most and least extreme options because the government didn't know what they were doing. They don't want to inconvenience people because they can't afford to alienate voters, but also can't afford to be seen as failing.
Vaccines are their off-ramp to the crisis, eliminating Covid as a political issue. They have the resources and the international political capital to make it happen, while most others don't.
There's also rumours they had to buy a bunch of vaccines to give to Syria as part of a prisoner exchange last weekend.