A students’ strike that threatened to mar the ceremonies marking the opening yesterday of the Hebrew University’s eleventh academic year was called off when the university Senate agreed to their demands for a reduction in the tuition fees.
Tuition fees were to have been raised, starting this year, from $25 a year to double that figure.
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