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On June 18 1997, hundreds of junior faculty members from all over Israel demonstrated in front of the Knesset in protest of shameful employment conditions: 8 months of employment per year with no social guarantees. During the demonstration, faculty members posted signs and shouted the slogans: "twelve months pay", "with no salary there is no research" and "juniors are not slaves".
The following Members of Knesset spoke to the demonstrators: M.K. Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami , Knesset Deputy Speaker M.K. Prof. Naomi Chazan , M.K. Anat Maor, Histadrut chairman M.K. Amir Peretz, and M.K. Abdulmalik Dehamshe. Mr. Benjamin Gonen, member of the Histadrut governing committee spoke as well.
The demonstrators urged the chairman of VATAT (The committee funding higher education in Israel), Prof. Lev-zion to stop ignoring the call of the Education Committee of the Knesset to start serious negotiations with the junior faculty union.
While Knesset member Tamar
Gozansky spoke to the faculty members, expressing her solidarity
with them, dozens of policemen stormed the campus and attacked
the people present , mercilessly beating everybody.
M.K. Gozansky was also hit by the policemen when she called
them to leave campus.
A few of the faculty members were injured, and one was evacuated
to hospital. Several demonstrators were arrested, but released at the end of the demonstration.
M.K. Tamar Gozansky Beatten by policemen
Junior faculty member injured
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