One hundred and fifty members of the academic staff of the Hebrew University went on strike today for higher salaries. A member of their committee said that the strike was to protest unbearably low salaries which prevent starvation but were not adequate to provide a living. Prof. Benzion Dinaberg, the Minister of Education, intervened in the strike tonight with compromise proposals which were being studied.
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