Israel. 1948 US "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 22 MAR 1948 surface mail postcard form from University of Maryland COLLEGE PARK to Hebrew University JERUSALEM, franked 3c & tied by local machine cancel; posted 5 days before the 27 March US surface-mail suspension to Palestine but still marked by New York Post Office with violet 2-line "Surface Mail Suspended | Return to Sender" instructional marking handstamp K-Type-1 & returned to sender. Given the long period between dispatch and refusal of service between 2 close locations (Maryland/New York) this may be a slow-processed "first day" suspended-mail postal item due to uncertainty & affected by the suspension + marked by this instructional marking (or may even precede known earliest date of such handling - but with no additional transit marks as proving dates this cannot be determined here).

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Israel. 1948 US "service suspended" mail to Palestine: 31 MAR 1948 surface mail cover from WELLSBORO to KFAR ATTA, franked 5c & tied by local machine cancel; posted 4 days after 27 March US surface-mail suspension to Palestine, so marked by NYC Post Office "Surface Mail Suspended | Return to Sender" instructional marking handstamp K-Type-1 & returned to sender.

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Israel. 1948 South African "service suspended" mail: 30 IV 1948 airmail cover from JOHANNESBURG to TEL AVIV, franked 10d per period 9d rate & tied by multiple strikes of JOHANNESBURG-94 postmark; however South Africa suspended airmail to Palestine on 24 April (and Lydda airfield closed 25 April) - here cover marked by both instructional marking handstamps "P.T.O." ["please turn over"] + "NO SERVICE" K-Type-I & II; and as with all such mail, sent to CAPE TOWN RETURNED L.O. [letter office] (backstamped 29 MAY 48 + inverted postmark image on front). Cover could have been resent using the Jewish Federation's "Box 18" emergency airmail service to Palestine (as of 14 May), but here not done; slit open at top.

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