Day 98 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

His memoir assigns a daylight entry on 6 March and describes an accompanying force. A parliamentary answer gives the night of 5–6 March and only a few companions, mainly personal staff. The 7 March diary of דוד בן-גוריון DAVID BEN-GURION records an informant's account placing entry two evenings earlier. event://5708־12a־25־قاوقجي־entered־palestine־ala QAWUQJI preserves the conflict rather than multiplying the reports into several securely established crossings.^{1 2}

A cumulative figure of thousands of armed entrants over earlier months cannot be attached to his particular party. External irregular involvement was already important, but it belongs to the Mandate phase rather than the later invasion by regular national armies.

Clark Clifford's 6 March memorandum argued for supporting partition and strengthening the means to implement it. The document records advice to the president, not proof that every proposed measure became policy. It belongs beside the competing options under discussion in the State Department, which appear more fully in the Day 100 rundown.³

The existence of a forceful proposal matters: policy was contested, not already settled by an inevitable march toward trusteeship. The outcome still required decisions beyond this memorandum.

הדסה HADASSAH's docket records restoration of three telephone lines with army guards on 6 March. At 22:00 it records renewed firing from the direction of وادي الجوز WADI JOZ. Restoration of communications and renewed attack are compatible facts; neither proves that the route had become reliably safe.⁴

The following day's JTA bulletin describes a raid around بيار عدس BIR ADAS, near מגדיאל MAGDIʾEL, and separate aircraft incidents. Its night references require a 6–7 March window. Reported deaths and demolished buildings do not independently establish the identity of every victim, an evacuation order or a population's permanent removal.⁵ These episodes continue in the next rundown without becoming additional attacks merely because a second daily article discusses them.

This is Day 98 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-03-06. Its daytime portion maps to כ״ה באדר א׳ ה׳תש״ח 25th 𝑜𝑓 Adar I, AM 5708. After local sunset, the Hebrew date changes to כ״ו באדר א׳ ה׳תש״ח 26th 𝑜𝑓 Adar I, AM 5708. This calendar convention does not prove that every reported act occurred in daylight.

The principal entry witnesses give daylight 6 March or night 5–6 March, both potentially 25 Adar I; an undated-hour 5 March attribution could instead imply 24 Adar I. The memorandum explicitly bears 6 March. The 22:00 firing and probable night 6–7 March raid fall on 26 Adar I after sunset. Their civil-date window remains stated. ⁶

• Why does the entry’s Hebrew date not resolve its disputed civil timing?
• How should advice to a president be distinguished from an adopted policy?