Heat

Weather: Intense heat on Yom Kippur

Temperatures expected to increase significantly during the fast. Heat will decrease ahead of Sukkot holiday.

Clear, sunny skies and unchanging temperatures expected from Friday to Monday.

Forecasters predict a hot Friday and Saturday.

Weekend weather to be hotter, with fog along coast.

Four-year-old Hanoch Boimel, who died after being forgotten in a car, brought to rest. Driver released to house arrest.

Four-year-old left behind in a car in Modiin Illit dies of heat. MK Katz: this could have been prevented.

A deadly heat wave kills at least 30 people in the US, and 144 people die in flash floods in Russia. Flood warnings posted in Britain.