מפ״ם MAPAM political leaders received reports of חירם ḤIRAM atrocities, while electoral eligibility and continuing shelling in ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM remained pressing wartime questions.

What had political leaders learned?

The מפ״ם MAPAM briefing study preserves Morris’s correction identifying משה ארם MOŜE EREM and his later Galili-or-Erem qualification. Reports of صفصاف SAFSAF and صلحة SALIHA deaths concerned late October and are not counted again on November 11. Original meeting notes remain uncollated. 1 2

Who was to participate in the election?

Klir reproduces דוד בן-גוריון DAVID BEN-GURION’s argument limiting voting to people actually present within the governing territory. He acknowledged that prisoners of war, detainees in Cyprus and other absent יהודים YEHUDIM would be excluded. The proposal also affected Palestinian refugees; registration, citizenship and permission to return were separate questions. Final regulations remain needed. 3

What did the civilian reports establish?

Klir reports four children wounded by shelling and removal of special exit-permit requirements for residents of ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM. The injuries lack names and hospital verification. Lovett’s separate instruction directed a Lebanese concern over forces in southern Lebanon toward the UN rather than direct American intervention; the complaint had been conveyed on November 6. 4 5

How is this dated?

This is Day 348 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-11-11. This civil-day slot, corresponding in the register’s daytime Hebcal conversion to ט׳ בחשוון ה׳תש״ט 9th 𝑜𝑓 Ḥeŝvan, AM 5709. 6 After local sunset the Hebrew date changes to י׳ בחשוון ה׳תש״ט 10th 𝑜𝑓 Ḥeŝvan, AM 5709. The briefing concerned earlier atrocities; those deaths are not redated to November 11. The daily route does not assign every reported incident to that Hebrew day. Unrecorded occurrence hours remain open for independent calendar review.

Guided reflections

  • Why do the November 11 briefing and the underlying killings need different dates?
  • How did physical-presence voting proposals affect absent people from more than one community?

Footnotes

  1. https://cursosextensao.usp.br/pluginfile.php/977243/mod_resource/content/1/Benny%20Morris_%20%E2%80%9CRevisiting%20the%20Palestinian%20Exodus%20of%201948%E2%80%9D%20in%20Avi%20Shlim%20et%20al_%20The%20War%20for%20Palestine%2C%20Cambridge%20University%20Press%2C%202001.pdf p. 59, note 24. ↩
  2. https://yplus.ps/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Morris-Benny-The-Birth-of-the-Palestinian-Refugee-Problem-Revisited.pdf p. 500, notes 118–119. ↩
  3. https://benyehuda.org/read/23753 November 11 concluding electoral passage. ↩
  4. https://benyehuda.org/read/23753 November 11 opening paragraphs. ↩
  5. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v05p2/d748 FRUS document 748, November 11, 16:00, and note 1. ↩
  6. https://cursosextensao.usp.br/pluginfile.php/977243/mod_resource/content/1/Benny%20Morris_%20%E2%80%9CRevisiting%20the%20Palestinian%20Exodus%20of%201948%E2%80%9D%20in%20Avi%20Shlim%20et%20al_%20The%20War%20for%20Palestine%2C%20Cambridge%20University%20Press%2C%202001.pdf Dated witness identified in the sections above; source occurrence or reportage role distinguished there. ↩