Tel-Aviv University graduate student Barak Segal, who was one of the activists of the 2011 social justice movement, decided to protest the high cost of housing by putting up a tent on the university’s campus and reside in it starting Wednesday. Segal decided to recreate the tent protest, which took place on Rothschild Boulevard in the summer of 2011, after his landlord raised the rent of his one bedroom Ramat-Gan apartment by almost 10 percent.

According to a recent survey, half of Israeli students have received financial aid from their parents in the past academic year. The average amount of this financial aid in 2011-2012 reached NIS 14,355, a 15 percent increase from the year before. On the facebook event page he opened, Segal made clear that positioning himself on campus isn’t an attack on Tel Aviv University.

“I just think students can define what the future is going to look like. I think that we are taught a lot of things here that help us produce ideas. Except in the real world, those things don’t happen. I think the university, as a learning place, can be the host for our uprising and support our ideas.” “The hope is that 300,000 students will uprise and create a situation where things can finally change. But this kind of thing takes time,” Segal said. He is expected to be joined by dozens others who will do the same. Faculty, students and other university staff will also come for support.