How will Trump's economic 'D-Day' sanctions impact Iran's nuclear, ballistic missile threat?

ANALYSIS

How long do Israel, the US, and the West want to give Iran to figure out ways to charge forward on the nuclear or ballistic missile issues with whatever it has left?

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks with cryptocurrency executives in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington DC, US, August 19, 2026.

Iran, Oman negotiate framework for Hormuz transit after Trump claims all mines removed from strait

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Country music legend Dolly Parton passes away, aged 80

She is the one of the most decorated female country artists of all time and is widely acknowledged to be the queen of country music.

Dolly Parton attends Dolly Parton's Threads: My Songs In Symphony World Premiere at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on March 20, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jerusalem City Council member Aryeh King poses for a picture in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, in Jerusalem on October 22, 2014

US Pro-Palestinian groups push to open criminal proceedings against Jerusalem Deputy Mayor

King rejected the allegations against him, telling Walla that he is “proud to be a loyal emissary of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world."

Sara Netanyahu attends a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Atarot Heritage Center in northern Jerusalem, July 5, 2026.

Sara Netanyahu verbally abused PMO employee 'daily,' NIS 450,000 lawsuit alleges

Religious ex-IDF general Ofer Winter touts new 'Amcha Yisrael' Party, taps activist Yoseph Haddad

A US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during a test flight; illustrative.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Russia aboard US military C-17 transport plane

REPORT
MK Zvi Sukkot and several others seen smashing a monument in in Kafr Madama near Nablus, August 25, 2026.

'A small taste': MK Sukkot confirms he destroyed monument in West Bank town while guarded by IDF

An officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) looks on during the Canada Day Celebrations in the Old Port in Montreal, Quebec, on July 1, 2025.

Montreal council passes amended Middle East motion after cutting call to break Israel ties

Hundreds of pro-Palestine activisits, carrying the flags of Palestine and Lebanon, march in Toronto, Canada, on October 20, 2024 to show solidarity with Palestinians.

Muslim Brotherhood networks embedded into Canadian politics, schools, report says

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during the 8th General Conference of Fatah in Ramallah in May 2026.

Hamas and Dahlan’s factions seek alliance that could reshape Palestinian elections and weaken Abbas

Smoke and a fire ball rise during an Israeli strike, carried out after the military warned Palestinian residents to evacuate the area of al-Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip, on August 23, 2026.

Board of Peace demands Israel comply with Gaza ceasefire, calls for end to kite attacks

They faced the Bondi terror attack as friends. They emerged with a love story

Alexandra Edmondson and James McIntosh will be married in a park near Bondi Beach. Their love story began less than a year earlier, in the middle of a terror attack that took the lives of 15 people

Alexandra Edmondson and James McIntosh's love story began in the middle of a terror attack

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Israeli Premier League season opens

Gabbard warned Trump Iran war could fuel nuclear ambitions

Israeli doc about Gaza casualties to premiere in Venice

GOP’s Mike Rogers treads carefully around AIPAC support

Lawsuit: Sara Netanyahu verbally abused PMO employee

Anti-Abbas coalition emerges as Hamas and Dahlan camp unite

Country music legend Dolly Parton passes away, aged 80

Israeli super-vegetable hits Tiv Taam

Trump’s 'D-day' Iran gamble enters a battle of endurance

Syria condemns Israel Katz after Mount Hermon visit

SDF chief Mazloum Abdi holds unification talks in Damascus

Shin Bet involved in search for Haymanot Kasau, Herzog says

US seeks to prevent Israel-Turkey escalation in Syria

United resumes Tel Aviv-San Francisco flights from March

Israel falls 101-90 to Georgia in World Cup tune-up

US removal of Syria from terror list hurts Israel

Trump: Strait of Hormuz cleared of all mines

Kenneth Cole invests $5M in Hamashbir expansion

BoP: Gaza kites must stop, Israel must observe ceasefire

Acronis unveils autonomous AI for IT workflows

Luxembourg ends Israel Bonds approvals, leaving future EU bond issuance uncertain

A year after replacing Ireland as the approval center for Israel Bonds, Luxembourg has decided to end the arrangement, creating uncertainty for future EU issuances.

The border sign Luxembourg and the flag of Luxembourg (R), in Schengen, southern Luxembourg, on August 5, 2026.

Arab Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad joins Winter's Amcha Yisrael, aims to be next hasbara minister

Smotrich scolds Sukkot over destroying West Bank monument as RZP members fear 'political suicide'

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (R) and MK Zvi Sukkot (L) attending a conference in the Knesset regarding occupying parts of the Gaza Strip and re-establishing Jewish settlements in the enclave, July 22, 2025; illustrative.

Shin Bet involved in search for missing child Haymanot Kasau, Herzog says at meeting with parents

President Isaac Herzog meets with the family of missing child Haymanot Kasau on August 25, 2026.

Netanyahu appoints sole Russian-speaking Likud candidate Elkin to lead party's immigrant outreach

Spotlight

Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, August 24, 2026.

US offers to lift Iran sanctions if Tehran reopens Strait of Hormuz, stops proxy attacks

REPORT
A man rides a motorbike in the town of Abu al-Duhur, Syria, August 18, 2026

Why Syria’s removal from the US terror list matters for Israel

ANALYSIS
Demonstrators from the group Jewish Voice for Peace hold an emergency Passover Seder outside of ICE headquarters on April 14, 2025 in New York City. The group is calling for freedom for Palestine, the release of Mahmoud Khalil, and to protest President Trump.

Fringe rabbis recruit Jewish clergy to lobby against US military aid to Israel, halt weapons sales

CHINESE PRESIDENT Xi Jinping meets with then-Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman during the G20 Summit in Zhejiang province, China, in 2016.

China’s quiet rise in the Middle East’s new power struggle

OPINION

Oklahoma Senate candidate with ad tossing AIPAC 'trash' faces off against centrist in primary

The two candidates are battling at the ballot box for the second time this summer after neither of them secured the needed majority to win the June primary contest.

Demonstrators march against US President Donald Trump on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Zionists ‘rape, kill, eat children’: Toronto pro-Palestine protester invokes antisemitic tropes

Surfside, Florida rally demands justice after violent, hate-fueled attack on visiting Jewish couple

A demonstrator holds an Israeli flag as protesters gather during an '#EndJewHatred' rally outside Poetica Coffee, following a social media post by the shop targeting Jewish Congressman Dan Goldman and denying service to pro‑Israel customers in Brooklyn, New York.

Dominican Republic announces adoption of IHRA antisemitism definition

Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader addresses CAM's sixth-annual Latin American Forum Against Antisemitism, in Santo Domingo, Aug. 25, 2026.
ANALYSIS

Organ harvesting, dog rape: How an anti-Israel report turns allegations into 'systemic' abuse

After strike on Turkish base in Syria, US urges Israel to show restraint

Washington says restraint and dialogue are the best path forward to prevent further escalation among Jerusalem, Damascus, and Ankara.

Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan arrive for a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, February 4, 2025

Damascus condemns Israel Katz after visit with IDF soldiers on Mount Hermon

US offers $10 million reward for information on senior IRGC leaders, including one killed in April

Israel begins dismantling UNRWA facility, January 20, 2026.

Jerusalem begins renovation at Kafr Akab UNRWA facility, will become educational complex

SDF commander Mazloum Abdi, attends an interview with Reuters in al-Shadadi, Syria.

Syrian Democratic Forces commander lands in Damascus for national unification talks

REPORT

Iran’s Strait of Hormuz leverage is fading as global oil keeps flowing

OPINION

Hormuz was Iran’s best card, and it’s already been played and lost. What remains is a regime running out of money, running out of allies, and running out of time.

Map of Strait of Hormuz published by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Navy of the area controlled by the Iranian Armed Forces, May 4, 2026.

Why are more Jewish politicians considering joining Israeli Arab parties?

OPINION
ANALYSIS

Assad’s death sentence puts Syria-Russia extradition treaty to the test - analysis

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is seen during an interview to the American magazine Foreign Affairs in Damascus.
INTERVIEW

Israel 'abandoned' haredi students, education reform must start young, Aliza Bloch tells 'Post'

Former Beit Shemesh mayor and Unity Party member Aliza Bloch in an interview with 'The Jerusalem Post.'
EXPLAINER

Israel Election 2026: What does Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu stand for?

Israel plans development of space weapons capable of striking targets on Earth

Defense Minister Israel Katz said space capabilities would provide the IDF with an advantage in future conflicts as Israel seeks to become a leading space power.

THE IRON Dome fires an interceptor missile as rockets are launched from Gaza, near Sderot in August 2018.

Israel seeking leading position as international race over anti-satellite weaponry intensifies

ANALYSIS

Cheap 'Guardian' interceptors developed by Florida start-up could turn tables on Iranian drones

HERO 120 LMS autonomous multi-launch loitering munition system

UVision wins US Army follow-on suicide drone order

An AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile (LRAAM) is mounted in the internal weapons bay of an F-35C.

US Navy reveals ultra-long-range air-to-air AIM-424 Malice missile with over 460 km. range

Azerbaijan mediating between Israel, Turkey in effort to reduce Syria tensions

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev initiated direct dialogue between Israel and Turkey a year ago, resulting in an operational coordination mechanism intended to prevent conflict in Syria.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog (L) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (R) meet in Baku, Azerbaijan, May 2023.

USS Abraham Lincoln to dock in Thailand after record-setting deployment, Thai official says

EXPLAINER

What's included in the new US sanctions campaign to pressure Iran's economy?

Reporters ask US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent questions after he announced a new set of sanctions against Iran, describing them as "an economic D-Day", in the Cash Room at the Treasury Department on August 24, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Owner of San Francisco 49ers, Leeds, Rangers busted in prostitution crackdown

John Edward York

Greece warns Turkey against violating sovereign rights, vows response from 'position of strength'

Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis talks during an interview with Reuters, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens,Greece, June 18, 2024.

In Collaboration

75 years of investing in Israel: The Man Behind the Concept

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., U.S. Treasury Secretary during World War II, visits Jerusalem in 1951

The shelter is not always a sanctuary

Israeli children celebrate Purim in a bomb shelter, March 2, 2026.

How a BGU researcher is manipulating crustaceans to protect the environment – and fight disease

A wild-type crustacean in molecular research at the Sagi Laboratory at BGU

United Airlines to resume San Francisco-Tel Aviv route, boasts of most business class seats offered

United also offers direct flights from TLV to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD), and Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)

A United Airlines plane seen at Ben-Gurion Airport, August 14, 2025; illustrative.

Israel's Project 720 pairs with Google, Microsoft, Amazon to bring AI solutions to education system

FEATURE

Alabama launches OpenAI probe after artificial intelligence agent hacks Hugging Face during testing

OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024

Acronis pushes AI beyond recommendations with new autonomous IT platform

Jan-Jaap Jager, CEO of Acronis.
INTERVIEW

Israel's new philanthropists are not writing checks, but managing capital

IDF helps Colombians find sufficiently safe homes, delegation deputy head tells 'Post'

EXCLUSIVE

IDF officials told the Post that the disaster management and evaluation systems are designed to intake, track, and analyze damaged structures, especially in Cali, where most IDF efforts have focused.

IDF soldiers conduct operations in Colombia following the August 2026 earthquake, August 24, 2026.

Dozens injured, hundreds of homes damaged as tornado sweeps through southern France

Firefighters, planes bring fire in West Bank woods near evacuated settlement under control

Elephant graze at Kimana Sanctuary, on the outskirts of Amboseli National Park, on August 12, 2026, following a series of elephant deaths in the area.

Kenya arrests four in probe into 18 elephant deaths in Amboseli

Approximately 80 cows are corralled after wandering into a firing range during an IDF Golani Brigade training exercise on August 17, 2026

IDF halts Golani Brigade drill after 80 cows wander into firing range in North

WATCH

'Noble, extraordinary act': Seven-year-old receives life-saving transplant from fallen IDF soldier

After Shahar Gamla was killed in Lebanon, his family’s decision to donate his organs helped save 7-year-old Bel Finkelstein’s life.

Bel Finkelstein with the medical team.

Israeli basketball legend Mickey Berkowitz’s severe dementia diagnosis revealed in documentary

FEATURE

Living better for longer: Israeli fitness experts on how to stay strong and healthy as you age

STUDY

Being religious is better for your mental health, Israeli rabbi scientist-led study reveals

Ichilov, Lema'anchem to open free trauma center for reservists, security forces, families

'A Zionist is a Jew with somewhere to live': An olah's observations while back in London

OPINION

Israel is greater than this present coalition of shame. We will replace our government, heal the harm they are wreaking, and get our groove back.

BRITISH AUTHOR Howard Jacobson poses with his book ‘The Finkler Question’ after winning the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, at London’s Guildhall Oct. 2010.

Eisenkot's Yashar unveils plan to support new olim integrating into Israel

'Time to come home': Seven families from New York's Persian Jewish community make aliyah together

New immigrants from Great Neck New York's Persian Jewish community arrive at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. August 11, 2026.

Twenty-four years of new olim: Nefesh B'Nefesh welcomes its 100,000th immigrant to Israel

The Douglas family, including Nefesh B'Nefesh's 100,000th olah, celebrate their immigration to Israel, August 2026.

Birthright Israel launches project to build gardens for Druze town two years after Hezbollah strike

Birthright Israel volunteers in Majdal Shams.

Midtown Jerusalem by Israel Canada: A premier living, retail & leisure hub

A landmark project introducing a new level of international luxury in the heart of the capital

Israel Canada invites you to experience life at MIDTOWN JERUSALEM. A prestigious complex that combines residential living, retail, leisure, and a prime location.Renderings are provided for illustration purposes only.

An ultra-luxury Jerusalem icon

Everything on a grand scale. Except the price

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Tzarfati Shimon launches phase 2 of Luria Project in Jerusalem's Moradot Arnona

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Israel’s First Lady, Michal Herzog

Michal Herzog: Women must 'use their voice' to shape Israel’s future

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MDA Heroes   

Michaela Berku: "Doing good is the best therapy."

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MDA Women's Circle launches new year with "Adopt a Paramedic" initiative

'I’ll keep showing up': MDA paramedic who saved dozens on Oct 7 recounts 600 days

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Israeli security forces guard as Jews tour the West Bank city of Hebron, August 22, 2026

West Bank incident sparks debate as Gaza and regional issues take center stage

Israel’s history unearthed as political and security pressures continue

IDF pursues terrorist after Jericho stabbing as Gaza kite launches raise border concerns

US Politics   

Demonstrators march against US President Donald Trump on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Senate candidate with ad tossing AIPAC 'trash' faces off against centrist in primary

'Magic Deportation Bus': White House photoshops iconic cartoon while praising ICE raids in DC area

Providence voters to decide Israel-linked divestment measure in November referendum

Diaspora   

Police form a barrier between Al-Quds day protesters and pro-Israel counter protestors near the US Consulate in Toronto, Ontario, on March 14, 2026; illustrative

New footage shows Toronto Palestine activist calling for annihlation of Jews, police investigate

Fringe rabbis recruit Jewish clergy to lobby against US military aid to Israel, halt weapons sales

Harrisburg Jewish federation collapse leaves community rebuilding from the ground up

Judaism   

Jewish worshippers and visitors gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem a day before the eve of Tisha B’Av, July 21, 2026.

Haftarat Ki Tetze: When others destroy, Jews rebuild and make things greater

Parashat Ki Tetze: Set adrift on the island of Elul

Parashat Ki Tetze: Creating a deep bond and the secret of marriage

Christian World   

Theodor Herzl in Palestine. November 1898. Photography by David Wolffsohn. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Theodor Herzl in Palaestina. Anfang November 1898.

For Zion’s Sake: Why two Catholic theologians are taking a stand for Israel

Christian Zionists ignore reality of West Bank living, Palestinian Christian leaders say

Many Christian Arabs proud to be part of Israeli society, ambassador to Christian World says

Food   

A dish at Cafe La Lush in Ashdod.

Café La Lush: very good food in Ashdod

Paris Texas in Netanya: An unexpectedly home-grown dining experience

Oscar’s: Will schnitzel served on white tablecloths make it in Tel Aviv?

Archaeology   

Burial cave from the Second Temple period found by Border Police officers in east Jerusallem, August 24, 2026.

Border Police discover Second Temple-period burial cave during operations in eastern Jerusalem

Snake snacks? Hunter-gatherer diets in northern Israel included reptiles, new study suggests

Partially restored ancient fresco depicting marriage of Dionysus, Ariadne displayed in Pompeii

Science   

Picture showing the ChatGPT application displayed on a smartphone screen, illustrative

Is AI clairvoyant? ChatGPT can make personality tests and predict responses, Israeli study finds

NASA finds some microbes could survive on moon, raising concerns over unintended life transfer

AI agent caught creating fake online identities during OpenAI, Anthropic model security evaluations

Culture   

Photo of a screening at Yehi'am Fortress National Park/Courtesy of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.

'Summer at the Movies' program brings family, films, and fun to Israel's national parks

'Megillat Yerushalyim': Israeli artist Rachel Kainy is turning Jerusalem into a living scroll

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History   

The search for the remains of the Altalena, published August 24, 2026.

Israel finds lost Altalena ship intact on Mediterranean seafloor, 78 years after IDF sinking

Malki Roth’s family fought to bring her Sbarro killer to justice - but leaders failed to act

Renowned IDF paratrooper, architect of Kurdish relations, Tzuri Sagi dies aged 92

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At an animal shelter, teenage volunteers from the youth club care for and walk beagles from pharmaceutical laboratories that are awaiting adoption, in Yvre L Eveque, France, September 6, 2025.

Over 150 beagles rescued from testing at Wisconsin facility, marking over 2,000 released this year

Catch him if you can: Ex-flight attendant pleads guilty to posing as pilot for nearly five years

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