Operation לוט LOT’s initial deployment brought the brigade ההנגב HAʾNEGEV to police stations toward סדום SEDOM. The first day did not yet complete the land supply route. A separate Air Force meeting considered treatment and discipline of volunteers from abroad.
Which operation stage belongs to November 23?
The expanded Operation Lot article retains the existing Event ID. The institutional history dates the Kurnub station entry to 15:30 and the عين حصب ʿEIN ḤUṢUB stage to dusk. Responsibility was assigned November 20, convoys followed November 24 and supplies reached סדום SEDOM on November 25. The latter dates remain subsequent outcomes. 1
What did the Air Force meeting concern?
בן-גוריון BEN-GURION’s diary records a 17:00 meeting at which Al Schwimmer complained about the treatment of foreign volunteers and called for flexibility in discipline. Other participants challenged his conduct. The archive explicitly corrects its transcription’s GAHAL to MAHAL in this context; those recruitment categories should not be conflated. With a 17:00 clock, the meeting raises a local sunset boundary and probably belongs to 22 Heshvan as an actual event, while the daytime rundown remains 21 Heshvan. 2
What did contemporary criticism distinguish?
منّاع MANNAʿ cites an untitled Al Hamishmar article dated November 23 describing earlier conduct in נצרת NAẒRAT and contrasting looting and mistreatment elsewhere. This is a retrospective English reproduction with original Hebrew issue unheld. It records an argument that such conduct was avoidable; it does not make the earlier events in נצרת NAẒRAT occur on November 23 or resolve every cause of departure. 3
How is this dated?
This is Day 360 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1948-11-23. The public daytime route is כ״א בחשוון ה׳תש״ט 21st 𝑜𝑓 Ḥeŝvan, AM 5709, checked by fixed-Hebrew-calendar conversion with Hebcal. 4 This article is the civil-day rundown, not a claim that all covered actions share that Hebrew occurrence date. Any event after local sunset belongs to כ״ב בחשוון ה׳תש״ט 22nd 𝑜𝑓 Ḥeŝvan, AM 5709. Exact clocks, derivative source dates and alternative timing are stated beside each material claim. No audited daily casualty or displacement total is established by these records.
Guided reflections
- Why do the first deployment and later arrival of supplies need separate dates?
- What does the archive’s recruitment category correction change about the Air Force discussion?
Footnotes
- https://www.palmach.org.il/en/history/database/?itemId=8498 Deployment, convoys and Sodomarrivalparagraphs. ↩
- https://bengurionarchive.bgu.ac.il/en/node/13351 Diary 225140, finalAir Forceparagraphandarchivebracketedcorrection. ↩
- https://webfiles.ucpress.edu/oa/9780520389373_WEB.pdf p 52 / PDFp 75; notes 86–88,p 297. ↩
- https://www.palmach.org.il/en/history/database/?itemId=8498 Dated witness discussed above; witness, reportage and event dates are distinguished in the sections. ↩