University students in Israel intensified their strike activities today, in protest against tuition increases. Simultaneously 200 school nurses throughout the country walked out on a 24-hour strike for higher salaries.
Seamen in Israel’s merchant navy also threatened today to strike. The seamen are protesting against new income tax regulations under which they are to be charged with income taxes on the market balue of monies they receive in foreign currencies. Until now, such income by seamen has been computed at the Israeli exchange rates effective in 1948.
The student strike actions were slated today for serious moves, after Prime Minister Levi Eshkol rejected the student appeal for holding back the proposed tuition increases until the issue is decided by Parliament’s education committee. The student strike committee threatened today that it will order students to conduct demonstrations in Jerusalem and to engage in sit-in actions in the offices of Mr. Eshkol and the Israeli Treasury Department.
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