Israel: Protest shuts down higher education, closes roads

by E Wayne Ross on April 14, 2007

Haaretz: Protest shuts down higher education, closes roads

Students responded to the strike against the reforms in higher education so enthusiastically yesterday that they even managed to surprise some of their leaders, who called the strike.

“The students have woken up and realized they won’t get another chance to prevent the wrong that the Shochat Committee (for education reform) is about to do,” Itzik Shmuli, the Students’ Union chairman at Oranim College said yesterday.