Nah, they knew where they were coming down; if they hadn't lost the engine just then it'd have soft-landed in Mare Serenitatis. Wikipedia says it wasn't going to last long anyway, built simple with no thermal control, and would have overheated in a few days. The only real instrumentation was a magnetometer on board for local observation. I suppose they could have gotten orbital readings on something, if it'd been deployed as a surveyor, but the rest of the payload makes it feel a little more like a morale-stunt than anything else.
I suppose it's the equivalent of a hundred-mile-long golf ball drive, getting within an inch of the cup on the first swing. Nnnnoooot quite...but only one little thing at just the wrong moment was all it needed.
Fortunately for the Israelis, everything else worked just fine, so...doing it again shouldn't be too hard. It's not like the early days of the moon shots, when by comparison we didn't even know how to make a golf club yet, let alone hit anything reliably with it.