Student strike in Israel-beginning

Student strike in Israel

First Days of the strike.

First Days of the strike.
______________________________________: It was a study day so everybody who was riched in auditorium was thrown out to the Technion's gate by group of organizers with megaphones.
"Let us study in this country" - main claim of the strike.; The main purpose of the strike: to lower the cost of education in half (from 10,000 NIS in a year down to 5,000 NIS) and try to get a system of advantages for students: increasing of minimum payments for students, new dormitories (a lot of students have to rent apartments on 300-400$ monthly because of shortage in place in campus and abrogation of taxes on a apartment's rent)
______________________________________: After a short meeting all 5,000 students began to run in the direction of Ziv square, where they blocked away one of the main routes of the town.Students were sit over the road,under the police warnings to clean the crossroad.; Some of cars were stopped right on the crossroad.

Technion's students

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October 22 1998.Haifa.

First arrests: ____________________________________________________; Photograph Gustavo from Colbo newspaper "catches moment"; A lot of activists from students association; were arrested by that moment.; 22 October 1998______________________________big photo>>

Truck driver was arrested after he let to students to climb on his truck.Demonstration was claimed to be ,but not on that square and up to 13:30 only.
______________________________________: Facts about Tel-Aviv Universitys' students arrested were known up to this.At 13:40 police's machines with water and horses platoon appeared.Boaz Kadosh (the head of students association in Technion) told that students wouldn't move from the place before their friends are released.
______________________________________: There is very noisy on the square because of megaphones and shouting:
"Jakov,go home!
Help us in study payments,
help us in army service.
Wake up or go home."
Jakov Neaman was minister of finance
A lot of cars are horning and traffic is paralysed.; At 14:15 police began to prepare to dispersal demonstrators. At 14:30 there was proclaimed by police that demonstration is illegal and everybody who takes part in it may be arrested.That way Boaz Kadosh asked students to break up and pay their respect for police.
Some people from the Student Association stayed and were arrested. Boaz Kadosh was one of them.