Israel: Faculty strike enters fourth week amid mutual recriminations

by E Wayne Ross on November 17, 2007

Haaretz: Faculty strike enters fourth week amid mutual recriminations

Scientific researchers at universities have been bitter for years over the decline in the quality of infrastructure in their field. Last Thursday, they set aside their petri dishes, left their lab mice unaccompanied and set off to protest. They are demanding increased public funding for science, and protesting “the government’s contempt for Israeli research.”