As summer loosens its grip on the Middle East, Israel finds itself caught in a familiar tension between seasons — an unseasonable surge of heat pressing down on the land before autumn finally asserts its claim. This week, temperatures across the country will climb three to four degrees above what mid-September typically asks of its people, with the interior bearing the heaviest burden. Relief arrives Thursday, but the forecast whispers that it may not stay long, with warmth threatening to return just as Yom Kippur draws the nation inward.