At least seven students were lightly injured and eight others arrested on Wednesday at a Tel Aviv protest demonstrating against a possible hike in tuition fees.

Thousands of students gathered at Tel Aviv Museum to mark the 14th day of their strike. Violence started when police tried to prevent students them from blocking Ibn Gavirol Street, a major Tel Aviv artery.

Students have been on strike protesting against the Shochat Committee on Higher Education's unpublished findings, which they fear may include a recommendation raising the current NIS 9,000 yearly fee (aproximately $2,250).

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"Our struggle is for implementation of government promises, a just economy and true equality," the Chairman of the National Union of Israeli Students, Itay Shonshein, said.

"This is a struggle [shared by] the secular and religious, Arabs and Jews," he added.

On Tuesday, University heads released a statement saying that the continuation of the student strike puts the "existence of the [current] semester in danger."

In the statement, the university heads' committee wrote that they decided to lengthen the semester in order to compensate for lost time during the strike.