Day 102 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

The plan combined protection of the proposed state and communities beyond it with offensive operations, destruction and expulsion in specified circumstances. Its instructions differentiated resistance from non-resistance and left substantial operational discretion. The complete study, ההגנה HAʾHAGANA approved Plan ד DALET., compares the reproduced text with scholarship and separates approval from later implementation.^{1 2}

A defensive purpose does not erase provisions for expulsion. Conversely, the existence of those provisions does not establish that every later departure followed an order issued on this date. Each community's experience requires its own evidence.

דוד בן-גוריון DAVID BEN-GURION's dated diary provides a separate contemporary record of the leadership's work. It should not be treated as interchangeable with the plan itself: its transport discussion estimated a need for ninety trucks to maintain supplies to ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM, with sixty vehicles required each day and vehicles also unavailable for repairs. It recorded shortages of armored transport and a report that צפת ẒEFAT had gone eight days without supplies. These are planning figures and information received, not proof that the missing vehicles were delivered on 10 March.³

The national task was to turn institutions and armed formations into the capacity to govern and defend. The date marks an important planning decision within that task, without prematurely transferring the later state's authority backward into March.

This is Day 102 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-03-10. Its daytime portion maps to כ״ט באדר א׳ ה׳תש״ח 29th 𝑜𝑓 Adar I, AM 5708. After local sunset, the Hebrew date changes to ל׳ באדר א׳ ה׳תש״ח 30th 𝑜𝑓 Adar I, AM 5708. This convention does not establish the hour of an individual event.

Plan approval explicitly bears 10 March, the daytime portion of 29 Adar I. Its approval hour is unknown; after sunset would be 30 Adar I. The diary has its own dated-entry status, and later implementation must retain separate dates. ⁴

• How did transport shortages limit the ability to defend isolated communities?
• Why must Plan Dalet’s approval and each later operation be evaluated separately?