Israeli university students started their first semester in mid-January ­— after a senior lecturers’ strike of nearly 90 days — amidst new threats that the school year might again be jeopardized in just a few weeks.

As senior doctors and professors were signing their agreement with the Finance Ministry on Friday, assistants and other “junior staff lecturers,” as the part-time and adjunct faculty are referred to in Israel, announced a labor dispute of their own.

The junior staff lecturers, who taught throughout the semester and did not strike, claimed that they were excluded from a previous agreement the senior lecturers’ signed and that they were employed by academic institutions as “outside teachers,” therefore they have no rights. In Israeli academia, junior staff lecturers with no tenure often face a policy whereby they are fired at the end of each academic year and rehired for the following year.

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