WAIS

As the chatbot lacks the requisite eyes, ears and hands, it is not able to take WAIS’s nonverbal subtests.

“I became addicted,” Wais told me.

One of his followers was Roi Wais, now a 38-year-old dog groomer living in a suburb outside Tel Aviv, who began reading up on the murder case.

“Journalists called every day asking for something new, and we gave it to them,” Wais said.

Wais Ahmad, a money changer, said the explosion happened inside a market where money changers operate.