Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives his second dose of the coronavirus vaccine on January 9. | Miriam Alster/AFP/Getty Images

Israel’s vaccination rate is nearly 7 times America’s. Here’s how they did it.

Nurse Elisheva Gasner reports for her shift about twice a week at Jerusalem’s Pais Arena, a sports stadium that has been transformed into a massive Covid-19 vaccination center. Patients arrive at the arena, swipe their insurance cards, and get a number. When their number is called, ushers escort them to vaccine booths where medics, doctors, and nurses like Gasner deliver shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine into their arms.

“We call it an operation — like an army operation,” Gasner told me last week. “It’s just orderly, and everyone is feeling good and excited.”

Israel leads the world in vaccination rate per capita. It’s been less than a