Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna several times in recent days to push for a third coronavirus vaccine dose while leaving Prime Minister Naftali Bennett out of the loop.
"The government must immediately bring the third vaccine to Israel, there is no other way to save lives and leave the economy open," the former prime minister said in a Twitter post with an accompanying video message.
Netanyahu apparently neglected to notify Bennett neither prior to nor after calling Pfizer and Moderna chiefs Albert Bourla and Stéphane Bancel, respectively.
Following those conversations, the Likud leader came to the conclusion that Israel must immediately order millions more vaccines to protect the country's adult population over the age of 50 from the highly transmissible Delta variant.