About 2,500 teachers and student teachers demonstrated outside the Knesset Wednesday to protest cuts in the education budget. Some 35,000 elementary school pupils were sent home in mid-morning because there were no teachers in the classrooms. A number of Knesset members joined the demonstration in a gesture of solidarity.
Yehuda Eshel, head of the student teachers union, said: “We came to protest the intention to turn the people of the book into children of the streets. We came here to protest against a situation which would turn people who should be a light unto nations into a darkness to the nations.”
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