Existing home sales in the U.S. plunged 9.7% in May. It was the third straight monthly decline and further evidence of the harm the virus pandemic has done to the housing market. The National Association of Realtors said Monday that the monthly decline pushed sales down to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.91 million, the slowest pace since a home buyers tax credit expired in October 2010. Sales fell in all regions of the country, with the biggest decline coming in the Northeast where virus infections were especially heavy. Sales of both existing and new homes have fallen sharply during the traditional spring selling season as communities were locked down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Evidence of Vladimir Putin’s intention to veto an anti-Israel UN Security Council Resolution that then-President Obama considered proposing shortly before he left office was found in recently declassified phone conversations between US President Donald Trump’s former adviser Michael Flynn and Russia’s ambassador to the US at the time Sergey Kislyak, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. As YWN reported last week, a Yisrael Hayom report revealed that not only did the US abandon long-standing US policy to support Israel in the UN and abstain from vetoing the anti-Israel UN Resolution 2334 in 2016 but Obama decided shortly later to propose an even more damaging anti-Israel resolution that would have forced Israel to establish a Palestinian state on the 1948 armistice lines.

Visitors are able to enter the White House complex without having their temperatures checked for the first time since mid-March, although several other coronavirus precautions remain in place. Those who come near the president will still undergo temperature checks and testing for the virus. Over the past three months, those seeking to access the White House complex first had to get their temperatures checked and answer a question about whether they had experienced any symptoms associated with COVID-19. The White House said Monday it was scaling back complex-wide temperature checks as the District of Columbia enters phase two in its reopening.

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About 800 British Jews signed a petition against the nomination of Likud Minister Tzipi Hotovely as the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, a Guardian report said. Hotovely, currently serving as the Minister of Settlement Affairs, is a member of the National Religious community in Israel and has right-wing political views. A staunch Netanyahu loyalist, she was recently chosen by the prime minister to replace Mark Regev, who stepped down from his position as ambassador to the UK last week.

President Donald Trump’s return to the campaign trail was designed to show strength and enthusiasm heading into the critical final months before an election that will decide whether he remains in the White House. Instead, his weekend rally in Oklahoma highlighted growing vulnerabilities and crystallized a divisive reelection message that largely ignores broad swaths of voters — independents, suburban women and people of color — who could play a crucial role in choosing Trump or Democratic challenger Joe Biden. The lower-than-expected turnout at the comeback rally, in particular, left Trump fuming.

Newly appointed Director of the Health Ministry, Professor Chezi Levy, held a briefing regarding the status of the Covid-19 Coronavirus outbreak and revealed that Bnei Brak has surpassed Tel Aviv in the number of newly diagnosed Covid-19 patients. “We are very worried about the high number of daily diagnoses,” Levy said. “The statistics reveal that the spread of the virus is present in many communities. We need to raise the level of enforcement of Health Ministry regulations in order to bring down the rate of infection.” Levy added: “There is no better preventative measure than wearing masks, maintaining social distancing and maintaining a high level of hygiene.” Levy added: “The infection was spread in previous months by many people coming back from abroad.

From Macy’s “Miracle on 34th Street” store to the World Trade Center’s office towers, New York City hit a key point Monday in trying to rebound from the nation’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak. For the first time in three months, New Yorkers are able to dine out, though only at outdoor tables. Shoppers can once again browse in the city’s destination stores. Shaggy heads can get haircuts. Cooped-up kids can finally climb playground monkey bars instead of apartment walls. Office workers can return to their desks, though many haven’t yet. Larry Silverstein, for one, couldn’t wait. The 89-year-old World Trade Center developer was headed to work at his office there Monday, along with up to a third of Silverstein Properties’ staff.

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New York City’s effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus through contact tracing has been hampered by the reluctance of many people who are infected with the virus to provide information to tracers, according to a report in The New York Times. The Times report said just 35% of the 5,347 city residents who tested positive or were presumed positive for COVID-19 in the first two weeks of the contact tracing program gave information about their close contacts. Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the School of Public Health at Rutgers University, called the 35% rate for eliciting contacts “very bad.” “For each person, you should be in touch with 75 percent of their contacts within a day,” Halkitis told the Times. Dr.