A strike lasting more than 70 days has won Israel’s university teachers raises of more than 70 percent.
The salary increases will be paid out over several years, under the settlement reached in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The Haifa Technion was planning to resume classes Wednesday, but teaching at the other institutions of higher learning will only begin after the Passover holiday.
Students, rather than rejoicing, burned tires and scuffled with the police in Tel Aviv.
The angry students fear that when classes resume, they will have to pay the price for their enforced 73-day vacation, which cost them almost a full semester of studies.
The students had gone to court to try to stop the strike earlier because of the amount of class time and money they were losing.
They are asking for passing marks for the coursed that were mostly not held.
They are also seeking financial compensation for the extra rent and lost summer jobs resulting from having to remain at their desks deep into the summer to compensate for lost time.
Education Minister Amnon Rubinstein has promised that the students will be consulted as the universities plan the best way of putting the strike and its damage behind them.
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