By JPOST.COM STAFFDozens of students from Oranim College demonstrated Sunday at Yagur Junction near Haifa against the Shochat Committee for reforms in higher education.
The students were planning to hold a lecture at the junction entitled: "Tamir is throwing us onto the streets."
Meanwhile, student unions resumed their strikes in higher educational institutions across the country, calling for the committee to be dismantled.
The committee's mandate includes examining merit-based pay scales for university lecturers, setting tuition policy and dealing with the "brain drain" of researchers leaving Israel for better-funded institutions in the United States and Britain.
Students and lecturers have claimed the committee's members are beholden to the Finance Ministry, and that its recommendations were pre-determined and would involve the 'privatization' of higher education in IsraelRECOMMENDED STORIESIsrael Navy attacks Houthis for first time in Hodeidah Port strikeJUNE 10, 2025Russia to construct eight nuclear power plants in IranJUNE 9, 2025Greta Thunberg among voluntarily deported activists, eight remain in detentionJUNE 10, 2025Jewish woman reveals plot to poison Israelis at Boom Festival in PortugalJUNE 9, 2025