It paid a sky-high price to access one of the best coronavirus vaccines in the world and also agreed to share data on the accelerated rollout - but Israel's expensive gamble seems to have paid off.
The small country in the Middle East was late joining the line for the Pfizer vaccine behind the US, Canada and Japan, according to
The Times of Israel, but it still managed to gain fast-tracked access to millions of doses.
This was partly due to Israel paying a lot more for the vaccine - as much as double what the United States and United Kingdom signed up for per dose - but also because it agreed to share data on the results of the rollout with Pfizer.