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Israel reported 9,831 new diagnosed cases on Tuesday, a hairbreadth away from the worst daily figure ever recorded in the country—10,000—at the peak of the third wave.

More than 350 people have died of the disease in the first three weeks of August.

“I don’t want to frighten you,” coronavirus czar Dr. Salman Zarka told the Israeli parliament this week, “this is the data. Unfortunately, the numbers don’t lie.”