The Transportation Workers Union in the Histadrut Labor Federation has announced that Egged's bus line 68 between the Hebrew University'sMount Scopus and Givat Ram campuses will be struck from 9-11 am on Thursday in protest of a violent attack on one of its drivers by a passenger on Tuesday.
This attack is part of an ongoing chain of violent incidents against bus drivers, which included a recent attack on Egged's line 274 in Rehovot.