Day 9 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

Yehoshua Globerman, a senior ההגנה HAʾHAGANA commander, was killed by Arab gunfire near Latrun on 25 Kislev 5708 while traveling to take command of a fighting brigade in the Shephelah. His Ministry of Defense memorial describes years of work in the defense of יהודים YEHUDIM, training, military planning, and Hebrew military instruction. He was forty-two and left a wife and two daughters.¹

A United States diplomatic document's editorial footnote says that Golda Myerson and דוד בן-גוריון DAVID BEN-GURION discussed the convoy ambush with the American consul on the day Globerman was killed. The underlying telegram was not inspected, so this remains an editor's summary rather than a direct quotation from the original dispatch.²

Globerman's 1905 birth in Belarus does not make him a Holocaust survivor. The sources reviewed describe his earlier work organizing the defense of יהודים YEHUDIM during violence targeting them and his long service in the ההגנה HAʾHAGANA; they do not identify him as a survivor of the later Holocaust.

A fuller source study of this episode is available at event://5708־09־25־yehoshua־globerman־killed.

On the civil evening of 8 December 1947, armed Palestinian Arabs from Salama and nearby places attacked location://HaTikva, a residential neighborhood of יהודים YEHUDIM on the southeast side of תל אביב TEL AVIV. The attackers reached homes, burned houses, and forced residents to seek safety; ההגנה HAʾHAGANA reinforcements repelled the advance. The attack put civilians, including families of יהודים YEHUDIM with roots in Yemen, in danger. The defenders' eventual success in holding the neighborhood does not erase the homes destroyed or the people who fled.³

This is Day 9 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1947-12-08. Its OTD route, 5708-09-25, is the daytime fixed-Hebrew conversion of that civil date, not a claim that every action mentioned here occurred before sunset.⁴ The adjacent Hebrew date after local sunset is 26 Kislev 5708 (5708-09-26). Globerman's official memorial places his death on 25 Kislev. The larger attack on location://HaTikva began on the civil evening of 8 December, around or after sunset according to the accounts; it may belong to 26 Kislev as a Hebrew event. It is included here because this article also surveys the civil day, not because its Hebrew hour is settled. Newspaper issue dates, dispatch dates and later testimony are kept distinct from occurrence dates.

• Which event or report fixes the date of this day’s main account?
• What record would resolve the most important remaining timing or casualty question?