Teaching resumed at the אוניברסיטה העברית UNIVERSITA HAʾIVRIT while a proposed refugee program and casualty reportage exposed different kinds of institutional action.

What resumed at the university?

Telkes dates the academic-year restart to April 22. Temporary teaching premises sustained learning while הר הצופים HAR HAʾẒOFIM remained inaccessible. JTA’s April 24 reopening ceremony and degree awards are preserved as a separate stage. A ceremony report does not move the beginning of the academic year onto its publication day.12

Which refugee-policy text belongs to this day?

McGhee’s memorandum was submitted April 22, asking for approval. The edition attaches later revised papers, chiefly dated April 27. Relief estimates, a displacement planning assumption and proposed return targets have different purposes; none proves actual population movement on this day. The cover, revised annexes, government acceptance and implementation remain separate acts.3

Why does the casualty bulletin not add fifteen deaths?

The April 22 bulletin reported nine soldiers and six civilians in two earlier incidents. The diary and later military investigation place the soldiers’ battle on April 20 and confirm twelve eventual deaths. The civilian incident remains April 19/20. A secondhand account of a Beirut radio demand for stronger border control does not prove عبدالله ABDULLAH ordered either attack.45

How is this dated?

This daily Event covers the civil-date slot April 22, 1949, Day 510 of 599, using its daytime fixed-Hebrew route כ״ג בניסן ה׳תש״ט 23rd 𝑜𝑓 Nisan, AM 5709. April 22 is the scholarly teaching-start date and the memorandum’s cover date. The April 24 ceremony, revised annexes and earlier attacks retain separate dates. After-sunset incidents belong to the following Hebrew day; this civil-day recap does not override their occurrence dates. 6789

Guided reflections

  • How did temporary classrooms preserve the university’s role in the life of עם ישראל AM YISRAʾEL?
  • Why do revised annexes limit what can be assigned to McGhee’s submission day?

Footnotes

  1. Eva Telkes, Biographical Dictionary of the First Generation of Professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998, Recovered printed p.118. ↩
  2. JTA, Hebrew University reopening, April24,1949, April 24 report. ↩
  3. FRUS1949 volumeVI, document608, McGhee April22 cover and later revised annexes, Cover and revision note. ↩
  4. JTA, nine soldiers and six civilians reported dead, April22,1949, Communiqué and radio reportage. ↩
  5. David Ben-Gurion, diary April21,1949, record226110, Explicit April 20 battle date. ↩
  6. Eva Telkes, Biographical Dictionary of the First Generation of Professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998, Dated record and relative wording discussed above. ↩
  7. JTA, Hebrew University reopening, April24,1949, Dated record and relative wording discussed above. ↩
  8. FRUS1949 volumeVI, document608, McGhee April22 cover and later revised annexes, Dated record and relative wording discussed above. ↩
  9. JTA, nine soldiers and six civilians reported dead, April22,1949, Dated record and relative wording discussed above. ↩

Works cited

  1. Eva Telkes, Biographical Dictionary of the First Generation of Professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem3,1998, pp115–125, printed p118. Selected official/scholarly passages recovered and read through web service. Direct provider response challenged; original download or page image not obtained. Recovered passage custody recorded separately. https://journals.openedition.org/bcrfj/pdf/4722. Accessed October11,2026.
  2. JTA, Hebrew University reopening, April24,1949. Archive transcription; original bulletin uncollated here except Bar-Ilan dateline collated in reused existing article. Relative wording and damaged text retained. https://www.jta.org/archive/hebrew-university-reopened-in-rented-quarters-in-jerusalem-was-closed-for-one-year. Accessed October11,2026.
  3. FRUS1949 volumeVI, document608, McGhee April22 cover and later revised annexes. April22 covering memorandum; edition reproduces later revisions chiefly April27. Printed annex wording not all certified as submitted April22. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v06/d608. Accessed October11,2026.
  4. JTA, nine soldiers and six civilians reported dead, April22,1949. Archive transcription; original bulletin uncollated here except Bar-Ilan dateline collated in reused existing article. Relative wording and damaged text retained. https://www.jta.org/archive/nine-israeli-soldiers-six-civilians-killed-by-arabs-government-take-grave-view. Accessed October11,2026.
  5. David Ben-Gurion, diary April21,1949, record226110. Hosted official record, archive edition or institutional text; occurrence, dispatch, publication and implementation distinguished. Underlying manuscripts or signed originals not implied. https://bengurionarchive.bgu.ac.il/node/13620. Accessed October11,2026.