The Tel Aviv municipality on Monday morning removed a trailer house that had been set up by members of the Tel Aviv University student union and the National Union of Israeli Students late Sunday night, the first permanent structure of its sort set up at the tent city in central Tel Aviv.
The trailer was set up by the students next to their protest headquarters near the corner of Rothschild and Sheinkin streets. Shortly after its construction was completed, the municipality affixed an eviction notice to the structure, giving it 48 hours before it would be forcibly removed. Only a few hours later though, city workers lifted the trailer onto a flatbed truck and drove it away from the city.RELATED:
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Gilad Erditi from the University of Tel Aviv student union said that the move was meant to protest Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's establishment of a multiple cabinet member team to examine the social issues addressed by the movement.
Erditi said the move showed that "the protest is far from over. We plan to stay in tents for a long time and, because of this, we decided to upgrade our infrastructure. "