[maxerickson]

That's presumably for EU production of the vaccine.

So Israel probably didn't really compete with the US for it.

[colpabar]

first paragraph:

>Israel will pay a premium price for the millions of COVID-19 vaccines it has ordered from US-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer, over 40 percent more than the US government or the European Union, Channel 13 news reported Sunday.

[maxerickson]

Pfizer has a Covid-19 vaccine production facilities in the EU and is selling the vaccines produced there to countries that aren't the US.