Day 61 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

JTA's 29 January bulletin reported an attack from the area JTA calls Salameh and a counterattack by ההגנה HAʾHAGANA. It gave two wounded among יהודים YEHUDIM, one seriously, and nine wounded Arabs. A separate attack on בן שמן BEN SHEMEN was reportedly repelled, with one Arab attacker killed. These are the bulletin's figures, without an independently checked roster or fully recovered dispatch dating.¹

The same bulletin described negotiations to resume talks concerning the Old City. Efforts to protect residents and negotiate access were taking place alongside armed defense; the report does not establish that an agreement had already secured the community.

A dispatch dated 29 January, reproduced in the next day's UN press digest, reported two policemen shot on בן יהודה BEN YEHUDA Street and said that the responsible organization was unknown. A report in Haaretz the following morning places the shooting at about 19:45. Later attribution to לח״י LEḤI requires comparison with operational and police records. The reported hour places the shooting after sunset, on 19 שבט ŜEVAT.^{2 3}

An AP report from Cairo quoted Arab League press official Assad Dagher discussing a government that could invite neighboring regular armies to intervene. The stated purpose was to prevent a state for יהודים YEHUDIM. This is evidence of public discussion of military intervention before independence, not an invasion order issued that day or proof of agreement among every Arab government.⁴

The UN commission's first monthly report bears the date 29 January. It recorded obstacles to implementation, including the English Empire's refusal to open an immigration port before ending the Mandate. A separate congressional hearing reported by JTA concerned a purchase of two hundred tons of demolition material associated with הסוכנות היהודית HAʾSOḪNUT HAʾYEHUDIT. The account described undelivered material; purchasing it did not establish that it reached ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL.^{5 6}

This is Day 61 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-01-29. Its public Ivrit route is 5708-11-18; after local sunset the adjacent Hebrew route is 5708-11-19.⁷

The commission report is explicitly dated 29 January. The police shooting and Cairo statement are assigned to that date by dispatches; the police shooting's reported 19:45 hour instead places that incident on the adjacent Hebrew day. The JTA issue anchors reportage about local attacks and the hearing; it does not prove that every described action occurred on its publication date.^{8 9}

• What does a public discussion of intervention establish before an invasion order exists?
• Why does the evening hour of the police shooting change its Hebrew date?