Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor lodged an official complaint with the UN Thursday about the rocket fire hitting Southern Israel from Gaza, saying, "as long as Israel's Southern communities will not know quiet, it will no be quiet in Gaza." [Jerusalem Post]

While Israeli Defense Forces officials are unhappy about the latest escalation with Hamas, they are pleased with the performance of the fourth Iron Dome battery. [Ynet]

“The message they will receive is that Israel can’t tolerate a nuclear Iran,’’ Yacov Livne, head of the Russia desk at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said of Vladimir Putin's upcoming visit to Israel. [Boston.com]

The Brooklyn district attorney charged four ultra-Orthodox men of attempting to silence an accuser in a sexual abuse case with bribes and threats. [New York Times]

Professor Abraham Ben-Zvi worries that the latest failed push to free Jonathan Pollard may have been the jailed spy's last chance. [Israel Hayom]

Artist Marc Adelman has criticized the Jewish Museum's decision to remove his photographic installation following a series of complaints from the men pictured in it. [New York Times]

Guy Sharett teaches Hebrew on the streets of Florentin by translating the graffiti and signs to eager students. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

A new smartphone app provides visitors to Berlin's Jewish cemeteries with historical information about the people buried there. [Huffington Post]