Why 'Samson' Runs: Jerusalem Fever

By CLYDE HABERMAN,
Published: May 13, 1992

JERUSALEM, May 12 — The sturdy young Canadian thought he was Samson, and went on to prove it by smashing through a wall to escape the other week from Kfar Shaul, the Government psychiatric hospital on Jerusalem's western reaches. ...

... A few years ago, Kfar Shaul had at the same time two patients convinced that they were the Messiah. He put them together, the hospital director recalls, but it didn't work out.

"They spoke, and they discussed," he said. "And finally, each decided that the other was an imposter."

Note: In print, the article's title was the same as this post's title. The printed article has a photo of Dr. Yair Bar-El.