 Nevertheless , it was mainly food that the inhabitants of Jerusalem needed . Starting 5 June , the Israeli engineers started to fix the road so that it let civil transport trucks pass to supply the city . 150 workers , working in four teams , installed a pipeline to supply the city with water , because the other pipeline , crossing Latrun , had been cut by the Jordanians . In O Jerusalem , Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins talked about heroic action , when during the night of 6 – 7 June , in fear of the critical situation of Jerusalem and to improve the morale of the population , 300 inhabitants of Tel Aviv were requisitioned to carry on their backs , for the few kilometers not yet ready for the trucks , what would be needed to feed the inhabitants of Jerusalem one more day . 
