A threatened general strike by the academic staffs of all five of Israel’s institutions of higher learning was averted today, when the Government met the demands by professors, lecturers and instructors for the payment of retroactive pay increases due them under an agreement signed last November.
Israel’s Cabinet agreed to allocate 3, 000, 000 Israeli pounds ($1, 000, 000) so that the arrearages will be cleared up by July 1. The institutions whose academic staffs threatened a general strike are the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University here, Bar-Ilan University at Ramat Gan, the Israel Institute of Technology-Technion at Haifa and the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovot.
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