Day 435 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

On February 6 James McDonald reported משה שרת MOŜE SHARETT’s response to the American appeal. Sharett described reducing forces around al-Auja, evacuating the town under United Nations supervision and allowing light Egyptian forces to remain in the coastal strip. He opposed withdrawing from a wider area of approximately 150 square kilometers that he regarded as essential to defense. The full study distinguishes these offered concessions and security arguments from implemented withdrawals.¹

The published telegram heading gives February 6 at 11:00, while its text says McDonald delivered the memorandum at 15:45 that day. Both cannot establish an accurate sending-and-meeting sequence as printed. The civil meeting date is credible; the precise clock remains unresolved. McDonald’s military assessment of the risk of renewed Egyptian attack is an assessment, not proof of an inevitable attack or of the optimal size of a defensive zone.²

JTA reports the עצמאות AẒMAʾUT sailing for חיפה HAIFA with nearly 2,200 released detainees. A following dispatch describes approximately 2,100 associated with this transport phase. Without the manifest these are alternative reports, not two groups to add together. Departure establishes movement toward the homeland, not that every passenger disembarked or obtained housing that day. The final closure study keeps these journeys within the larger evacuation total.³⁴

This is Day 435 of the 599-day civil-date series: 1949-02-06. TJD converts 1949-02-06 through the fixed Hebrew calendar to the daytime route ז׳ בשבט ה׳תש״ט 7th 𝑜𝑓 Ŝʾvat, AM 5709. Sunset can begin the following Hebrew date, as qualified below.

This is Day 435 of the 599-day civil-date series, 1949-02-06. Its public OTD route is ז׳ בשבט ה׳תש״ט 7th 𝑜𝑓 Ŝʾvat, AM 5709, the daytime fixed-Hebrew-calendar conversion in the series register. The diplomatic meeting and departure are reported on February 6; conflicting telegram clocks and passenger totals are not resolved by the daily route. Events after local sunset use ח׳ בשבט ה׳תש״ט 8th 𝑜𝑓 Ŝʾvat, AM 5709; this daily route does not date every reported incident. ⁵

• Which developments occurred that day, and which reached readers through later or retrospective reporting?
• What records would turn the attributed figures or proposed measures into a person-level account?