This article from March 2021 answers your question:
Israel's Netanyahu bets all on vaccine success to secure election win
The 71-year-old conservative, who is on trial for corruption and accused by critics of mismanaging the pandemic, has made the vaccine front and centre of his campaign speeches, social media posts and interviews.
But with opinion polls predicting no clear winner in the March 23 ballot and challengers on Netanyahu’s right poised to siphon some of his traditional supporters, it is not clear if his strategy will pay off.
“We are the only ones who can succeed (in emerging from the pandemic) because I brought millions of vaccine doses,” Netanyahu said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 13 TV last week.
Thirty world leaders called me. They told me, ‘we tip our hat to the way you ran things, with the health care services,’” he said.
More than half the Israeli population have been given a first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and nearly 40% have received both shots, far more than in any other country in the world...
The meeting was in June. The article reporting Netanyahu’s support was from March. That was still three months before the meeting where the problems with the vaccine were shared.