After a major Israeli national security blog reported that a prisoner exchange with Syria was secretly negotiated by Russia – that Israel would buy the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for Syria to close the deal – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu half confirmed and half denied the news on Saturday night. “I mean that not even an Israeli vaccine was used for this thing,” said Netanyahu. “I thank President Putin for doing this. And more than that, I will not add because that was the Russian request. ”The terms of the agreement were first reported by blogger Richard Silverstein and later confirmed by The New York Times. Israeli officials described the prison exchange as a standard exchange; an Israeli prisoner unidentified in Syria by two pastors. A source also confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that vaccines were part of the business. The Guardian reported in January that native Palestinians were being excluded from Israel’s vaccination campaign.
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