New vaccinations will be suitable to protect people against different coronavirus variants, said Netanyahu Israeli PM hopes to sign a similar deal to purchase vaccines from Moderna JERUSALEM: Israel signed a deal to buy millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccinations from Pfizer through 2022, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. The new vaccinations will be suitable to protect people against different variants of the coronavirus, Netanyahu said in a statement. He said he hopes to sign a similar deal to purchase vaccines from Moderna. “This means that very soon we will have more than enough vaccines, both for adults and children,” he said. With about 81% of citizens or residents over 16 — the age group eligible for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in Israel — having received both doses, infections and hospitalizations are down sharply.