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JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Representatives of an Israeli social protest movement that has swept the country and rattled the government were meeting at Tel Aviv University on Tuesday to draft a joint list of demands, activists said.

"I'm sure that we shall be able to reach agreement and formulate a joint document," protester Saguy Yaakobi told military radio, referring to the differing priorities in an ad hoc movement that includes students, housing activists and those seeking reforms in child care, health and education.

"The responsibility we bear is to unite all the players around one common document because this is an authentic struggle," national student union leader Itzik Shmuli told the radio. "I believe that we can create such a document."

On Tuesday morning, demonstrators kept up the pressure on the government, staging a protest in front of government offices in Tel Aviv, Israeli news site Ynet reported.

The protesters carried bales of hay to illustrate they are "the state's donkeys," the website reported, and chanted "Bibi it's over, my back is broken!" using the nickname for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In Jerusalem, disabled people gathered near the Supreme Court to demand their rights, state radio said.

And at Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv, nurses staged a strike in sympathy with doctors who have stepped up their long-running protest in recent weeks, staging hunger s... >>>