Day 409 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

The JTA dispatch says that the last troops left Egyptian soil the previous day. Klir’s entry describes withdrawal the previous evening from a height southwest of רפיח RAFIAḤ. The frontier-position study preserves January 10 or the January 10–11 night, the differing distance estimates, and a further earlier-night variant in the later military history. This is not a new January 11 daytime withdrawal established by the publication date.^{2 3 4}

The supplied French report discusses British movements in the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan and the RAF dispute. The endpoint returned an access challenge during this ingestion, so the exact article text has not been verified here. The accessible JTA report records instructions to raise a complaint at the United Nations about British activity at Aqaba and continuing difficulty transmitting a British protest to the government of מדינת ישראל MEDINAT YISRAʾEL. These are reported diplomatic positions, not proof that the United Kingdom had decided to attack.^{5 6}

The January 11 diary records financial pressure from maintaining the army and administrative problems with electoral identification. Distribution figures were disputed, officials needed help, and recent immigrants or people moving between localities could face registration difficulties. The government was building democratic institutions during continued mobilization and immigration. Discussion of remedies is not proof that every eligible resident obtained a vote.⁷

This is Day 409 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1949-01-11. Its daytime public route is י׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ט 10th 𝑜𝑓 Tevet, AM 5709; an occurrence after local sunset belongs to י״א בטבת ה׳תש״ט 11th 𝑜𝑓 Tevet, AM 5709. The recap route dates the civil-day account, not every event it covers. The dated diary or documentary report supplies this day’s developments; relative dates and later memorial, publication, or dispatch dates are identified beside the affected claims. Night action, policy discussion, proposal, and implemented action remain distinct.⁸

• Why should differing dates and distance measurements remain visible in the withdrawal account?
• How could registration and identification distribution affect recent immigrants’ access to voting?