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Netanyahu holds second vaccine summit with leaders of Hungary, Czech Republic

In Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest effort to create international vaccine alliances, he hosted Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Jerusalem.

Prime Ministers of (L to R) Czech Republic Andrej Babis, Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, and Hungary Viktor Orban, bump elbows during a joint press conference in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2021. (Photo by ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Prime Ministers of (L to R) Czech Republic Andrej Babis, Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungary Viktor Orban bump elbows during a joint press conference in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2021. — ABIR SULTAN/AFP via Getty Images

On March 4, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in what was known in Israel as the "vaccine summit." On March 11, Netanyahu repeated a similar trilateral operation, meeting in his Jerusalem office with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

By the end of the March 4 meeting, the three leaders had agreed to establish a vaccine alliance and cooperate in ventures for producing large quantities of vaccines. The March 11 was about cooperating in the research, development and production of vaccines.

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