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The Israeli Prime Minister announced Wednesday that his country will donate nearly 100,000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to several countries.
According to the Times of Israel, Netanyahu said that the number of countries to be granted the doses might be between 15 and 20. Said countries would mainly include those with diplomatic relations with Israel and others that do not have links with Tel Aviv.
According to the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) and the Jerusalem Post, the list includes Morocco, Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Kenya, Maldives, Uganda, the Czech Republic and Hungary, among others. The list would also include Mauritania, with which Israel does not yet have diplomatic relations. Each of these countries will receive between 1,000 and 5,000 doses from the Jewish state.
However, this decision depends on a legal opinion from the Attorney General in Israel. Indeed, an official from the Prime Minister's office explained that a pre-petition was launched, which led the attorney general to turn to the national security adviser behind this list.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit asked the National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat to give more details on the initiative, fearing that it would be the subject of a referral to the High Court of Justice in the country.
Israel is at the forefront of its vaccination campaign against Covid-19. Indeed, more than four and a half million Israelis, nearly 50% of the country's total population, have received the first dose of the vaccine while more than 3 million Israelis have already received both doses.
