T. Belman. Now I know why Israel turned its back on Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.
See how Bibi put the screws to his own country- Pfizer vaccines were sold at $62.00 U.S. per dose in Israel compared to America’s $19.50 per dose and Albania’s $12.00 per dose.
Pfizer obliges governments to keep its contracts confidential for 10 years but in Israel’s case it’s 30 years….oooh, was Bibi’s hand in the cookie jar ! …and Bennett is keeping it up, pushing every Israeli to get the shot (AND if you’ve had 2, a third shot of Pfizer)- even those who had COVID (in which case they would have strong antibodies)- under penalty of not being admitted to large gatherings and facing quarantines when returning from travel…vaccine passports are coming to Israel.
Information security expert on revealed Pfizer agreements: ‘There’s good reason Pfizer fought to hide the details of these contracts’
“If you were wondering why Ivermectin was suppressed, it is because the agreement that countries had with Pfizer does not allow them to escape their contract, which states that even if a drug will be found to treat COVID-19, the contract cannot be voided.”
Israel to begin ‘widely’ administering Moderna COVID vaccine on Sunday
Going forward, both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines will be given in Israel, the Health Ministry said.
By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN JULY 31, 2021 18:21
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israel-to-begin-widely-administering-moderna-covid-vaccine-on-sunday-675450
Just remembered – Israel signed a special agreement with Pfizer promising that Pfizer will get all the medical info on the vaccinated Israelis.
Israel was supposed to be the 1st test lab for the thing AND it paid for it through the nose.
@adamdalgliesh
The last name of the CEO of Pfizer is Bourla.
His parents are Holocaust survivors.
Not to make too much of it, but the medical staff and first responders were all among the earliest to be vaccinated to prevent the spread of disease while treating patients.
@Ted Belman
As I recall, the excuse was to get it to Israel the fastest, faster than to any other country.
Thanks, Mr. Belman.
I was going to post that Israel paid a lot more than other countries for the vaccine but it would take me a long time to find the info since I bookmarked it a long time ago.
I’ve been expecting a major scandal involving the vaccine since then.
AMA survey shows over 96% of doctors fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The doctors in Europe were demanding to either Pfizer or Moderna vaccines when others were being offered to them. So the people on the front lines who are not involved in the politics of this but the medicine by their actions speak loudly.
Well, somewhere around 40-50% of those in FDA/CDC are refusing the vaccines while also supporting the use of manipulative practices and pronouncing urgency of more vaccinations. So the tale of the fellow at Phizer seems to be right on queue. Again, I am sure they are all on prophylaxis doses of either HCQ or IVM. As Dr. Stella Immanuel said of Fauci, they should all have to submit to a blood test to prove they are not on the preventative care that they refuse to offer others.
I think that Netanyahu is for the most part an honest and decent man, although no saint. I think that double-billing the government for his travel expenses, and accepting gifts of suits, jewelry, champagne brandy and cigars (not hard cash) from someone who wanted him to help him obtain tax breaks from the Israeli government (which Bibi failed to obtain for him since he did not control the Finance Ministry), and perhaps similar peccadillos, were the limits of the corruption of which he was capable. Past Israeli statesmen such as Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, and Ariel Sharon were guilty of this kind of petty corruption as well. But only Ehud Olmert, among Israeli politicians, was thoroughly corrupt.
I think that Bibi was and is genuinely concerned for the health of the Israeli people. Whether or not the vaccines did help to reduce deaths and severe illnesses from infectious respiratory disaease among the Israeli people, Bibi was obviously convinced that this was the case, because of the advice he received from Israel’s own medical experts, the CDC and the WHO. Whether they did more good than harm or vice versa will have to await the judgment of history. It will be several years at least before we will learn the full truth. But I have seen no evidence that Bibi was anything but sincere in his belief that obtaining the vaccines was a public health necessity.
Nov 2020 was the date of this reporting. As I said in my other comment Bibi did great getting the vaccine even though it cost more. The EU waited for months after every Israeli who had wanted the vaccine had already received his two shots. So the EU paid less money and people died and got sick. Great work was done by Netanyahu.
. So this is partially confirming my memory and correcting as the US and EU paid less than my recollection.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-will-reportedly-pay-more-than-us-eu-for-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine/
I remember Israel paid $28 per dose compared to $14 per dose in the USA and Europe in general. Timing of when you buy and obtain a medicine and its price is very relevant. Bibi very wisely paid more to get the vaccine before Europeans and others. This was very smart plus wise on his part. Her personally negotiated the deal with the Pfizier CEO. This was one of the truly beneficial things he did for Israel.
This way Israel got first in the cue to get the best available vaccine. Israel also agreed to provide Pfizer with its studies as the Israeli data based covers all 4 HMOs and was an enormous source of confirmation of the initial Pfizer study of 30K patients.
Israel and Netenyahu did not get cheated but when there is a shortage of a great vaccine the Israeli public benefited with lives saved and Israelis were spared illness in large numbers by getting the vaccine. Israel paid more to get the vaccine and save lives plus keep healthy.
Also Israel also benefited financially by being spared health care costs of those that would have gotten sick and/or died. Plus saved on loss of production by keeping people healthy.
For those just evaluate healthcare and its costs based on the science and data not politics what Bibi did was a pure win for Israel.
This is from today’s Arutz Sheva:
By the way–sometime in 2020, Bibi Netanyahu invited the CEO of Pfitzer to visit Israel and observe the progress Israel was making in getting everyone vaccinated. But the CEO (I forget his name) explained that he could not visit Israel because he had not been vaccinated, and hence could not honestly enter Israel because of its travel restriction on unvaccinated people! He told Bibi that he delayed in getting vaccinated because he didn’t want to push to the head of the queue, preferring to wait until all the most vulnerable people had been vaccinated.
How noble! Reminds me of the CEOs of cigarette companies who won’t touch tobacco themselves.
@Ted
Your reporting here is very disconcerting, and I did not mean to suggest you had not done your due diligence when you described the accusations. I had read of this matter elsewhere and I found them as I described them in my comment. So, please do not mistake them as a reproach on your reporting, it was easily not my intention.
I like to boil it down.
” Pfizer vaccines were sold at $62.00 U.S. per dose in Israel compared to America’s $19.50 per dose and Albania’s $12.00 per dose.”
How does Bibi justify paying 5 times what Albania was paying. Albania consummated the deal on Jan 1/21 for 10% of what Israel bought and at 1/5 of the price per unit.
The other issue that irked was that we couldn’t use ivermectin or Hydroxy. That compounds the cost aspect.
It is not my style to suggest graft without evidence. I received the infor like that and even toned it down.
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Beyond this matter of Bibi’s imaginings on such outcomes, however, there is also the issue of the high value of the vaccines themselves. There was a great calling for the vaccines throughout the world, and it was always my expectation that the Pharma were of a mind to pursue such prices of each nation to the limit of their ability to pay, as they knew the value that the availability of such priceless commodities as this well plied claims of a preventative agent in the midst of pandemic. Indeed, it should be recalled that during this past winter, while Bibi promised his people of the great rewards of his agreement with Phizer, Bennett, and I believe Lapid each ridiculed his claims of full access to the Israeli public of the expected charmed benefits of the vaccines at the time.
It is well known now the limits of the vaccines protections and the significant harms that many have suffered due to their adverse reactions, but neither of these traits were known to Pharma’s clients, and these limitations on the vaccines’ benefits were only learned over these past months as being, well, what they are. So the vaccines in Dec. were to go for a hefty value, and as other nations were limited upon their public’s access, Israel’s limitation seemed only dependent upon their citizens willingness to submit to the experimental compound. When I realized that Bibi’s claims were sincere, and yes, I too doubted his ability to do as he claimed, it was no mystery that some significant financial commitment was offered to secure this achievement, as financial gain is the only motivating force to which Pharma responds. The ready and unfettered access that Bibi had to Pharma to inquire of the details of the vaccines also spoke to this point.
So, for these reasons and my personal opinion of the man, his commitment to the State and his ability to deduce that he would not long hide a hefty financial trail, I do not believe these charges as worthy. There will be no doubt be an investigation, and we will see what comes of such shenanigans as Mandelblit might ether manufacture or find no need, but it would seem an obvious false move to crown the career of such an accomplished statesmen as Bibi Netanyahu with the reward of being just a foolish crook.
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@Ted
I had seen the commentary about Bibi and the high pricing three days ago when I posted in Chit Chat the links to the contracts that were leaked. Since then, I have given some thought to this possibility of graft, as such actions are commonly employed to the aggrandizement of the powerful elites. For my own views, I can not acknowledge that this seems very likely for a few reasons, which could easily be flawed, yet I still find them persuasive. Bibi has had a rich history of recently being investigated for crimes with a voracious appetite by the attorney general to the point that charges over ice cream and champagne were leveled against him. These charges will soon be rewarded with either Bibi’s ignominious ruin or his glorious vindication. In either case, Bibi has had ample opportunity and motivation by many forces and many personalities to make an end of his career. Contrary to this movement, however, it is as if he has taken up a restored vigor to maintain his high office with a imagined view that it was his first attempts to achieve it. If Bibi had been involved in such skullduggery as is well represented in the overly corrupt circles of the US Congress and many US state governments, it would be well interpreted that he should have made his moves towards an accepted defeat, and enjoy the riches with which he is now being suspected of being rewarded.
His continued moves to take back his role of premiere does in fact suggest to me that if he is indeed guilty of such chicanery, his aptitude of leadership is far greater than his attentions towards maintaining such grafted earnings as has been suggested. There is no chance this use of public funds would not have a reckoning, and Mandelblit is not likely to leave many small stones uninspected, much less the financial commitments to the Pharma mafia.
Bibi has, I believe, proven himself a superior strategist over the years, owing his current lack of authority to a seeming unbridgeable hatred of him and even then requiring the unpleasant use of Abbas and Meretz. Hence, it is unlikely that he would be so foolish as to pursue this financial graft and suspect that he and his family would not become the object of such public scrutiny as will follow him and his family as long as they have a pulse to mount a political return. It would be foolish for him to think such matters could long survive such close inspection as was shown by his unpaid ice cream bills, even should he soon receive a verdict of innocence or guilty.
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