Israel Dodges Questions Over Vaccine-for-Prisoner Swap With Syria - The Wall Street Journal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sidestepped questions over whether his country agreed to pay Russia to provide coronavirus vaccines to Syria as a part of a prisoner swap between the two Middle Eastern countries.

The deal was first reported by a U.S.-based blogger, Richard Silverstein, and the New York Times , who said that Israel secretly agreed to pay Russia to send vaccines to Syria to secure the return of the Israeli woman.

The prime minister didn’t deny buying the Russian vaccines, however, and a person familiar with the deal said that was part of the arrangement