Day 312 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

PAL/327 published the ambulance arrangement and dated the observer’s appeal to October 5. This is substantive reportage for October 6 even though the negotiations were earlier. Daily crossings were a term of the agreement; the release does not provide patient numbers or proof that every scheduled crossing occurred. ¹

An American memorandum considered preserving settlements in the northern נגב NEGEV within a compromise settlement. It was an internal proposal and did not transfer territory. ² Klir’s dated compilation records a call for men aged eighteen to forty-eight, outside full army or police mobilization, to report the next day for essential road work connecting ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM to the coastal plain. The order’s publication and its prospective reporting date are different; no count of workers actually present is supplied. ³

Klir’s October 6 entry attributes to משה שרת MOŜE SHARETT the insistence that the state could not abandon the city’s 100,000 residents among יהודים YEHUDIM to UN protection alone. JTA’s October 7 account reports his press conference. The dates may concern speech and publication rather than two identical speeches; the exact delivery record remains unheld. ^{4 5}

This is the civil-date recap for 1948-10-06, Day 312 of 599. The date register and Hebcal civil-day convention, without the after-sunset option, give the daytime route ג׳ בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 3rd 𝑜𝑓 Tiŝrei, AM 5709. ⁶ The civil slot continues after sunset on ד׳ בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 4th 𝑜𝑓 Tiŝrei, AM 5709. Each section distinguishes occurrence, document and publication dates; a retrospective entry is not automatically the event date. Estimates remain attributed, and uncertain times are not supplied.

• Why is October 6 the ambulance announcement date rather than a second negotiation?
• How did road-work mobilization expose the need to maintain access to the city?