Order early, pay a lot, digitise distribution and stretch the supply. This is the mantra how Israel came to be a leader of the world’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, which already reached nearly 15% of the country’s 9.3 million population in about two weeks. The first big decision by Israel was paying a premium to get early vaccines. Israeli authorities have not said publicly how much was paid for the vaccine developed by U.S. company Pfizer and German partner BioNTech.
But one official said on condition of anonymity revealed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was “paying around $30 per vaccine dose, or around twice the price abroad.” Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said bouncing back the Israel’s economy from a series of lockdowns justified any higher purchase cost or buying an excess of vaccines. The vaccination drive faced criticism also, Rights groups are outraged that Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip face a long wait for vaccines. 
Israel received its first Pfizer shipment on December 9. Israeli frontline teams repacked the large ultra-frozen pallets into insulated boxes the size of small pizzas, allowing for distribution in smaller numbers and at more remote sites. This repacking technique got green light from Pfizer company. SLE, the logistics unit of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries handles the vaccines, in an underground facility near Israel’s main airport. Thirty large freezers set to minus 70 degrees Celsius (-94 Fahrenheit) can hold 5 million doses. They repack it into bundles as small as 100 doses to be delivered to about 400 vaccine centres, said Adam Segal, SLE’s logistics and operations manager. It allows easier access to small clinics as well as larger centralised centres.
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