Day 105 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

An attributed police extract dates the attack to 01:40 on 13 March and lists twelve dead, including children. Other contemporary and later accounts give different tolls or suggest the following night. Massacre at الحسينية AL-HUSAYNIYYA. keeps the named victims, source limitations and dating conflict together. A massacre of villagers cannot be reduced to a generic exchange of fire; the evidence also does not justify adding all reported tolls.^{1 2}

The later archival transcription reports seven deaths among יהודים YEHUDIM and six wounded in fighting at Faluja. It also records a railway attack near Battir at 22:15 in which a fireman was killed and another person wounded. The original returns and individual casualty records have not been checked, so these remain separate attributed claims rather than a verified combined daily count.³

The Truman Library's account identifies Edward Jacobson's 13 March effort to persuade the president to receive חיים ויצמן ḤAYIM WEIZMANN. The meeting followed on 18 March and is treated in חיים ויצמן ḤAYIM WEIZMANN met President Truman.. Persuading a president to grant access was a diplomatic achievement; it was not yet recognition of a state or a recorded promise to adopt every requested policy.⁴

The contrast between local violence and high-level diplomacy reflects the simultaneous demands of the period. Survival, military organization and international support had to be pursued together.

This is Day 105 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-03-13. Its daytime portion maps to ב׳ באדר ב׳ ה׳תש״ח 2nd 𝑜𝑓 Adar II, AM 5708. After local sunset, the Hebrew date changes to ג׳ באדר ב׳ ה׳תש״ח 3rd 𝑜𝑓 Adar II, AM 5708. This convention does not establish the hour of an individual event.

The working daily route is 2 Adar II. A 01:40 attack on 13 March falls on that date, but witnesses suggesting the night of 13–14 imply 3 Adar II. The 22:15 railway attack likewise falls on 3 Adar II. Jacobson’s intervention bears 13 March; its hour remains unknown. ⁵

• How do the children in the attributed casualty list affect classification of the village attack?
• What did Jacobson secure on this date, and what remained undecided?