Beneath a sky stretched taut with heat, Israel endures a week of temperatures four to five degrees above what August normally asks of its people — a condition that tests both body and land, raising the specter of wildfire across a country already familiar with summer's severity. Meteorologists speak of the week ahead with measured gravity, noting that while this heat does not rival Europe's recent extremes, it is real, it is dry, and it carries risk. By Thursday a slow retreat begins, and by Saturday, in a turn unusual enough to prompt wonder, rain may arrive — not as a herald of autumn, but a
Israel braces for intense heat wave with wildfire risk through Thursday
Extreme heat stress affecting most of Israel's population poses health risks; elevated wildfire danger threatens communities and property.