Day 39 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

JTA described הארגון HAʾIRGUN fighters using a seized armored vehicle and throwing explosives toward armed positions and the Piccadilly Cafe. Its first bulletin counted fifteen Arabs killed and forty-three wounded; a later bulletin gave an official count of seventeen dead and thirty-six wounded. The presence of armed positions does not establish that everyone struck near the gate or cafe was a fighter.^{1 2}

The focused study is הארגון HAʾIRGUN bombed the Jaffa Gate area in ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM.. Its exact civil date remains disputed.

Ben-Gurion's 7 January diary recorded continued isolation and discussion of routes through Jaffa Gate or Zion Gate. The later JTA report also said the blockade remained. The attackers' objective was not an achieved relief of the quarter.^{3 4}

Ben-Gurion was told that around seventy children had been taken out of the settlement bloc under British military escort. His diary shows that the evacuation had occurred by 7 January; it does not give the travel date or a household list. This was an organized removal for safety, distinct from flight, expulsion, or denial of return.⁵

This is Day 39 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-01-07. Its public Ivrit route is 5708-10-25; after local sunset the adjacent Hebrew route is 5708-10-26.

The daily civil slot is 7 January 1948 and its daytime route is 25 Tevet 5708. Ben-Gurion recorded at about 18:00 that he had heard of the הארגון HAʾIRGUN attack, supporting occurrence by that evening; local sunset may already have advanced the Hebrew date to 26 Tevet. JTA's bulletins dated 8 and 9 January describe the attack as occurring on the eighth. The working incident placement follows the diary while preserving this conflict; the British police log is needed to settle its civil day and hour. The children's journey is dated only as completed by 7 January.^{6 7}

• What difference would a police time log make to this attack's civil and Hebrew dates?
• How did the isolation of the quarter of יהודים YEHUDIM affect choices made for children elsewhere?