Day 330 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

The morning meeting with דב יוסף DOV YOSEF discussed rationing, winter fuel and restricted transport. Food reserves were estimated for three months and water at 55,000 cubic meters for two months. A planned pipeline was expected to improve supply. These are administrative estimates, not equal household access or completed construction. ¹

The diary records approximately 10,000 people leaving exposed neighborhoods for other parts of the city and an agency estimate of approximately 20,000 departing Jerusalem during earlier fighting and truce periods. These movements cover different places and periods and may overlap. They cannot be added or treated as new October 24 flight. ²

Klir reports difficulties maintaining the separated university and hospital enclave on הר הצופים HAR HA’ẒOFIM and a Hadassah claim of more than 4,000 military and civilian patients affected by the war. That is a cumulative institutional count, not this day’s wounded. The evening diary reports blocked access in the מנרה MANARA crisis and considers whether southern troops can be transferred. ^{3 4} The day was הושענא רבה HOŜANA RABA; שמיני עצרת ŜEMINI AẒERET began after sunset.

This is Day 330 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-10-24. 1948-10-24 is the civil occurrence date supported by ⁵ TJD uses the daytime Hebcal conversion, without the after-sunset option, to כ״א בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 21st 𝑜𝑓 Tiŝrei, AM 5709. This article is the civil-day recap, not an assertion that each reported or continuing action began that day. If the unrecorded hour was after local sunset, the occurrence belongs to כ״ב בתשרי ה׳תש״ט 22nd 𝑜𝑓 Tiŝrei, AM 5709. The working route does not resolve that uncertainty. This daytime observance is Hosana Rabbah; Shemini Atzeret begins on the next Hebrew date.

• Why cannot internal neighborhood movement and departure from Jerusalem simply be added?
• How do reserves estimated for months differ from what a rationed household could obtain?