Rehovot Student Leaders Vow to Converge on Capital, Start Hunger Strike

The unions have organized three large car and bus caravans that will leave Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba at 3 p.m. headed for the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. The convoys will gather at 5 p.m. at the Shoresh Junction, and continue to the entrance to the city, where students will disembark and complete the trip on foot.

In addition, a group of some 40 students of veterinary medicine from Hebrew University's Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences in Rehovot [situated next to the Weizmann Institute of Science] launched a march from Beit Dagan to Jerusalem Wednesday, which is also expected to end on Thursday afternoon in front of the prime minister's residence...

Source: Haviv Rettig. Student leaders vow to converge on capital, start hunger strike JPost.com (10 May 2007) [FullText]