Fleishon from Weizmann Institute of Science said that BA.2.86 was detected “from a patient which is not chronic nor infected by one (man able to transmit inter host)”.

Source: https://www.siasat.com/after-eg-5-who-flags-another-covid-variant-ba-2-86-2671183/

“I felt as if a sun-ray had stuck me,” declared Chaim Weizmann, “and I thought I heard the steps of the Messiah.”

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/jews-and-the-land-of-israel-part-viii-american-jewish-and-the-british-response-to-the-balfour-declaration/2023/04/30/