Temperatures will drop by one degree Celsius Friday night and Saturday, and the weather will remain through next Tuesday. The thermometer will begin to rise, and the long-range forecast calls for slighter warmer than usual temperatures on Thursday, the first day of the week-long Succot holiday. No precipitation is in sight.

Forecasted temperatures for the Yom Kippur holiday, which coincides this year with the Sabbath, are 26-16 Celsius (79-61 F) in Jerusalem, 28-23 (82-73 F) in Tel Aviv and 30-18 (86-64 F) in Be'er Sheva and the northern Negev.