Ruven Kuperman, painter and lecturer lives and works in his studio in Tel Aviv.
As a zealous user of texts and avid consumer multicultural folklore, Kuperman adopts the myriad options and in his unique way develops an eclectic series characterized by stylistic multiplicity. From the endless supply of information and unlimited options that he employs, he manages to differentiate himself, formulate a unique voice, and leave a distinct and personal mark. The painting he presents is virtuosic, resonating with artistic traditions in a range of mediums and materials, shifts between the public and the private, and draws inspiration from Eastern and Western history and myths.
Kuperman has received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York (1993). His solo shows include the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Wilfried Israel Museum in HaZore’a, Golconda Fine Art Gallery, Rosenfeld Gallery and Raw-Art Gallery in Tel Aviv, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art in Berlin, Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod, and exhibitions in United States. Kuperman's work has been exhibited in group exhibitions worldwide, in venues such as the IV Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art in Berlin, Cain Schulte Contemporary Art in San Francisco, Salon d'art contemporain in Monaco, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Ashdod Museum of Art and more. 

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Dr. Liat Lavi, head of the Master's Program in Visual Communication (M.Des.) and lecturer in the Department of Visual and Material Culture, is a researcher and writer in the fields of culture, philosophy and technology. Her articles have been published in professional journals, reference books, and catalogs, and have been presented at international conferences. In addition to other topics, Dr. Lavi’s research deals with the impact growing technologies have on human perception, and the ethical issues these technologies raise; as reflected, for example, in the developing discourse surrounding "robot rights", with respect to issues of gender, resource distribution, and visual culture.

Dr. Lavi is an attorney, with a degree in law and economics from Tel Aviv University, a bachelor's degree in art from Bezalel, and both a master's degree and a doctorate from the Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University. She has lectured in the philosophy department at Bar-Ilan University and served as the CEO of the Shpilman Institute of Photography (a public benefit company).

Prof. Einat Leader, Born in Jerusalem (1966), a jeweller, lecturer, researcher and curator in the field of metalwork, design and craft. A graduate of the Jewelry department, Bezalel (B.A. 1992) and a masters degree in industrial design from the Technion, Haifa (M.Sc. 2003). Associate Professor and faculty member at the department of Jewelry and Fashion (department head, 2005-2013) and in the department of Visual and Material Culture at Bezalel. Chairwoman of The Association for Contemporary Metalsmithing and Jewelry in Israel. 

Her works have been exhibited among others at the The Ramat Gan Museum / Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv / Artists‘ Studios, Tel Aviv / Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv /  Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv / The Design Museum, Holon / The Israel Museum, Jerusalem / Tel Aviv City Museum / Magnes Museum, UC Berkeley / Fundación COAM, Madrid / Museum Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires / Jewellery Museum, Pforzheim / Mingei Museum, San Diego / Institut National des Metiers d’Art, Paris / Galerie für Angewandte Kunst, Munich / Jüdisches Museum, Hohenems / Froots Gallery, Shanghai / SMAC, Chemnitz / South Karelia Museum,  Lappeenranta, / Jüdisches Museum, Hohenems / DIVA, Antwerp / The Silberwarenmuseum Ott-Pausersche Fabrik, Schwäbisch Gmünd.

About her works - publications lately: “70 Years of Craft and Design in Israel”, Smadar Samson, Mingei Museum, 2018 /  “All About Tel Aviv - Jaffa Die Erfindung einer Stadt”, Hannes Sulzenbacher and Hanno Loewy, Jüdisches Museum, Hohenems, 2019 / “Contemporary Crafts in Israel”, Efrat Dgani, Eitav, 2019 / “Jewelers Speak Out”, Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Metalsmith Magazine, 2019 / “Jewellery: Creating a Practice of Meaning through Gesture”, Aya Bentur, Journal of Jewellery Research, 2020 / KORU7, International Contemporary Jewellery triennial 2021 / 20th International Silver Triennial, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2022 / “Craft and Leisure”, Tel-Aviv City museum. Curator: Galit Gaon, 2023.

Prizes and grants, among others: The Meisler Design, the Greiber Prize - Bezalel Academy Jerusalem 1990-91 / The Spertus Museum honorable mention, Chicago 1993 / The Deans summa cum laude Karplus prize, the Technion, Haifa, 2003 / Grants of the Rabinovich Foundation for solo and duo exhibitions, Tel Aviv 2003, 2009, 2015 / The Design Award, Culture Ministry of Israel  2010 / Alix de Rothschild Foundation honorable mention for craft work, Tel Aviv, 2012 / Mifal Hapais Scholarship for artist book, with David Goss, Tel Aviv, 2017.

Writings and publications by Einat Leader, Lately: “The Angels of Craft - Craft as a Cultural Vocation”, Israel - 70 Years of Craft & Design, The Mingei Museum. Editor and curator: Smadar Samson,  California, 2018 / “Term of Adornment”, text for the exhibition Utopian Fantasists. (Curators: Shachar Cohen, Einat Leader(, Published on Beit Binyamini online, 2022 / “The Status of the Craft: A Local Historical Perspective on Attempts to Regulate and Promote the Arts and Crafts”, Decade Book of The Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv.  Editor: Shlomit Bauman 2022 / “Mehahar”, with Vered Kaminski, curatorial text for the exhibition Sagsoget - the Bezalel academy’s Jewelry, at the Design museum - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. (curators : Vered Kaminski, Einat Leader) 2023.

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Dalya Y. Markovich is a lecturer at the Visual and Material Culture department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. 
Markovich received her PhD from the School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2007), followed by Post-doctoral studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (2008), followed by M.A from the History of Art Department, Tel Aviv University (2010). In 2003 she was a Fellow at Heschel Sustainability Center, followed by fellowship at The Mandel Leadership Institute (2004-2006).
Markovich's main fields of research are the theory and practice of teaching (art) education in multi-national and diverse cultural society. She was the editor of Bezalel Journal of Visual and Material Culture (2014-2016); Hakivun Mizrach (2003-2005); Noga (2004-2005); Iton 77 (2006-2007); Block, City, Media, Theory and Architecture (2008). Her edited collection – Understanding Campus-Community Partnerships in Conflict Zones, Engaging Students for Transformation Change – was published at Palgrave McMillan Publisher (2019). Her book Nationality and Ethnicity in an Israeli School: A Case of Jewish-Arab Students – was published at Routledge (2019). 

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Daniel Meir (b. 1972, in Haifa Israel) is a Tel Aviv based sound designer and sound artist, specializing in sound design and original music for video art, documentaries, film, and theater.

He works with critically acclaimed video artists, film makers, and musicians from around the world. Notably, he has collaborated on works that have been featured in the Venice Biennale, among Academy Awards nominated films, and a Cannes Festival winning film. 

His work can be heard daily in cinemas, museums and exhibitions worldwide.

Daniel teaches sound art and sound design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.

In addition, He is the co-founder and director of Halas Radio, an experimental internet radio station sponsored by The Israeli Center for Digital Art.

For CV and Credit list see danielmeir.com

Lecturer and researcher in the fields of Museology and Visual Culture.

Geologist, specialized in science education and museums and the Visual Culture of Science.

 PhD. Museum Studies, University of Leicester

Dr. Naomi Meiri-Dann
Art historian and Visual Culture researcher.
Her realms of specialization range from Medieval Art (mainly Italian); Architecture of memory and commemoration (mainly in Israel); Interrelations between religious art and secular culture` and issues concerning encounters between “high” and popular cultures.

Naomi teaches at the Departments of Visual and Material Culture (including the B.A. program), as well as the Master in Policy and Theory of the Arts and the M.Des. Program in Visual Communication.
 

Was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1976, Lives and works in Tel-Aviv.
BFA and MFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and the Cooper-Union, New-York. 
Award Recipient of the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist (2015), Rudin Prize, Norton Museum of Art (2015), 
The Lottery Council for Culture and Art (2013), The Critics Choice Award, Radical-Jung Festival, Munich, Germany (2013), IAAB and Culture-Scapes scholarship 
and residency, Basel, Switzerland (2011), Young Artist Prize, Israeli Ministry of Science and Culture (2009), Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation Prize for the Arts (2004). 
Maymon has had solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv museum of art, the Norton Museum of Art, Florida, the 12th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Herzliya Museum of Art, The Artists Studios Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Iltis Bunker, Kiel, Germany, Hinterhof space, Basel, Switzerland, The 2nd International Photography Festival, Jaffa,  Volkstheater, Munich, Germany, Volkstheater, Nikosia, Cyprus, Roxy Theater, Basel, Switzerland, Hezi Cohen gallery, Tel Aviv, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, among other venues. Maymon participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad and his works have been published in many journals, books and magazines in Israel and abroad. 1999-2004/ Photographer for “Purple” magazine.
As of 2002, Lecturer and a member of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and from 2015-2019 the head of the Midrasha photography department, Kfar-saba.

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Tal Mor Sinay is an independent designer, head of the ‘About Design’ track and lecturer at the M.Des Program of Industrial Design at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem and at the Industrial Design program and the Masters of Design Innovation and Technology at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia between 2016-2020. He is about to complete his PhD from RMIT researching informal commemorative practices. He uses Project based research methods (PBR) within the Industrial Design fields and is currently involved in research that looks at the intersection of design and primary school education. He holds a bachelor B.Des (magna cum laude) from 2006 and a master M.Des from 2009 at Bezalel academy.

English teacher, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

English teacher, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, 'Oman' – Haredi Extension

English teacher, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, 'Oman' – Haredi Extension, Mechina.

MA with high honors in Teaching Languages, English, Tel Aviv University.

BA in English Linguistics + teacher's certificate, Bar Ilan University.

Graduate Certificates in Teaching English to students with learning disabilities, Kibbutzim College.

Lecturer and researcher in the field of Cinema and Television Studies. Tomer teaches at the Department of Visual and Material Culture at Bezalel as well as at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. Her research is concerned on the ties between cinema, technology and music. Her work is primarily focused on phenomenological experiences of viewing and listening in popular culture: from music channels to professional wrestling, between the classical Hollywood Musical and the Historical Epic film, as well as reflexive and cinephilic practices in cinema and on the internet. She has completed her Master’s Thesis titled “The Period Film Musical as an Experience of Saturated Historicity” at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. She is a graduate the Screen Based Arts Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.

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Dr. Elad Persov, Faculty, M.Des Industrial Design, and expert in sustainable design management, system design, sustainable development. In 2005 he founded the Design Management track in the M.Des Program and managed it through the first decade. He represented Bezalel at numerous research meetings across Europe and published papers at various peer-reviewed conferences and journals. His Ph.D. dissertation "Sustainable Design Management: Educating Designers as Roles Change" was conducted at Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, explored the interface between Higher Education and the design practice from a sustainability perspective. As a researcher, Elad participated in grant writing and research and management of DESURBS (FP7 2010-2015), CPUDP (COST 2014-2016), CLEVER (ERASMUS + 2015-2019), along with initiation of local industrial R&D collaborations. Throughout the years, Elad has promoted sustainability at Bezalel in partnership with lecturers and students by establishing the 'Bezalel Interdisciplinary Sustainable Design Group'. In 2020 he founded the Bezalel Center for Sustainable Development.

Prof. Dror Pimentel teaches at the Visual and Material Dept. and at the M.A. Program for Policy and Theory of the Arts. His main areas of expertise are continental philosophy, phenomenology, aesthetics and semiotics. His publications include: The Dream of Purity: Heidegger with Derrida (Magnes Press, 2009 [Hebrew]); Aesthetics (Bialik Institute, 2014 [Hebrew]); Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Aesthethics: Of Hospitality in Art (Bialik Institute, 2024 [Hebrew]); and articles in: Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly; Heidegger Studies; British Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology; Performance Philosophy Journal; Inscriptions; Aesthetic Investigations, among others. He translated to Hebrew Heidegger’s Letter on “Humanism” (Magnes Press, 2018). His book Aesth-ethics: Art as an Ethic of Hospitality is about to appear at Palgrave-Macmillan NY.

Entrepreneur (food industry production chains); Researcher (CDFIs, impact investments, social design and social finance); Adjunct Professor (Hebrew U. Jerusalem business school, Coller Business School, Tel Aviv University, Bezalel); EU Project manager - Creative economy and beneficiary of several EU grants such as Marie Curie (FAB‐MOVE) and Erasmus + CLEVER, Former JDC Head of Social-Finance Innovation.  Until 2014, was the head of the Recanati Business School’s Development and International Relations Unit. Completed a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy and an M.A. in Communication Technologies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. on the evolving of the new economy at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, focusing on the high-tech industries in North America and Europe. As a recipient of a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) scholarship she participated in the McGill Program for Economic and Social Rights, working with the Mohawk people (first nation) in Kahnawake, Canada, and writing an assessment report of business opportunities in the Mohawk community (the KANATA 2000 Report).  Prior to her time spent in Canada Yifat worked for five years with the Association for Human Rights in Israel as director of the consulting department, working with security forces and public service leaders. She mentor entrepreneurs from around the world as part of the Pears Program for Innovation and International Development, is involved in numerous initiatives in Israel to promote social entrepreneurship and has acted as a judge for several enterprise pitching competitions. Her current academic activities consist of participation in an international research group on social and sustainable finance (Oxford-Helsinki), focusing on alternative socio-economic models and  acting as board member, writing social-finance case studies and leading and managing the Horizon 2020 ENI project on creative platform for regional economies based on food industries.   

Dr. Yoav Ronel has received his PhD degree from the Department of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion university in 2019 and is a lecturer at the department of Visual and Material Culture at Bezalel, where he teaches courses dealing with poetic and theoretical representations of love and desire. His dissertation dealt with matters of melancholy and nationality in the work of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky. 

His current research is concerned with a critique of work in the neoliberal age, and with philosophical, poetic and social representations of idleness.  

Among his latest publications ate an article about Berdichevsky’s melancholy in Mikan Hebrew and Israeli Literature journal, and an article about love in the thought of Giorgio Agamben and Roland Barthes, published in Theory Now journal.

Dr. Ravid Rovner is an academic and curator in the field of design, with a focus on the convergence of design history, theory, and philosophy. She holds a B.Des in Industrial Design and a PhD in Philosophy. Her scholarly contributions to design theory explore diverse topics such as the history of originality, the idea of ‘truth to material’, critical design, and gender design. Rovner wrote the curriculum for the Israeli high school diploma in design, “Aspects of Design History”.

She has curated exhibitions on object poetry and rhizomatic mind mapping, a research technique instructs as a tool for research innovation. Her forthcoming book on “Beit Hayotzer” ceramic factory promises to illuminate the invention of tradition through ceramic design. At Bezalel, Rovner teaches design research, rhizomatic research, critical design, and gender design.

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Asher Salah is Associate Professor at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has been a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in 2011-2012 and in 2014-2015, and at the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies in Jewish Scepticism in 2016-2017 and 2020-2021. His scholarship deals with Jewish literature in early modern Italy, Sephardic studies and Jewish cinema in the Mediterranean area. His publications include a translation into Italian and an analysis of Samuele Romanelli’s Masa‘ Be‘arav (Florence: Giuntina, 2006), La République des Lettres: Rabbins, médecins et écrivains juifs en Italie au XVIIIè (Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2007), L’epistolario di Marco Mortara: un rabbino italiano tra riforma e ortodossia (Florence: Giuntina, 2012), Diari Risorgimentali: due ragazzi ebrei si raccontano (Livorno: Belforte, 2017), and with D. Flesler and M. Friedman, editor of “Genealogies of Sepharad,” Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 18 (2020).

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Liat Savin Ben Shoshan, Ph.D. A writer and scholar who focuses on the material, socio-political and methodological interrelations of architecture and urban space, and visual images – analogical and digital, still and moving images. She writes researches and teaches on film, politics and space, and on film as means of understanding the history and present of the built environment. She is doing her postdoctoral research on Israeli architect and urbanist Itzhak Perlstein in the 1930s-1950s at the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning (2020-2021).

She has published in academic peer reviewed journals on documentary diary film and domestic space, on architecture and its reflection in film in the mid-century eras of post war and nation building, and has edited an issue of an online journal on architecture and documentary film. Teaches at Bezalel, at the faculty of Architecture and Town Planning in the Technion, Haifa, and at Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Arts.

Noa Segev is an architect, designer, researcher, and educator with a deep commitment to expanding the boundaries of architectural thought and practice. After earning a B.Arch. from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem and an M.F.A. with distinction in Spatial Design and Performance from the Architectural Association, Noa has explored the intersections of architecture through collaborations with graphic designers, choreographers, new media artists, academics, and artists. Noa currently teaches at the Architectural Association, Bezalel Academy, and Shenkar College, where her courses range from guiding first-year studio to teaching a fifth-year final project studio as well as fundamental design and interdisciplinary courses. Her work, both independent and collaborative, has been exhibited internationally and recognized in competitions. Noa also works on collaborative projects in both curation and interior design.

A registered architect who specializes in Historic Preservation. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, in the Urban Design Master's Degree Program, and in the Department of Visual and Material Culture. Adi serves as Bezalel Project Coordinator for EDICULA - Educational Digital Innovative Cultural heritage related Learning Activities (Erasmus+ Project). Adi received her B.Arch from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She holds a Diploma in Conservation of the Built Heritage from the Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University and Master of Art in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies from Rutgers University, N.J. Currently she is a PhD candidate at Sapienza University of Rome. She received the Bezalel Commendation for excellence in teaching (2021-22) She specializes in urban heritage, the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, ethics in conservation, documentation, evaluation, and conservation consultation. She is the conservation consultant for the Reginal Planning Unit at the Israel Planning Administration, the Southern Region Planning Committee, and for Holon Municipality. She was the Conservation Policy Coordinator for the Israel Antiquities Authority. Adi is the Chairperson of the Cultural Routes Scientific Committee, ICOMOS Israel, a voluntarily position.

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Dr. Shaul Setter, head of the Master's Program in Policy and Theory of the Arts (M.A.), is a lecturer and writer in the fields of art, literature, and theory. He holds a master's degree from Tel Aviv University and a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He deals with the relationship between aesthetics and politics, literature and art of the 20th and 21st centuries, political thought, continental philosophy, and critical theory. His doctoral thesis discusses neo-modernist art projects ranging from Europe to Israel/Palestine. His book on Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Genet, and the Palestinian struggle in the 1970s was published in 2021. His articles have been published in academic journals, reference books, and catalogs. For several years, he was the art critic for Haaretz. Since 2019, he has edited “Theory and Criticism”, a journal for theoretical thought and critical review, which is published in Hebrew twice a year by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Rinat Sherzer (Top 40 women Keynote Speakers of 2020 according to Real Leaders Magazine), is an interdisciplinary biotech engineer, service design strategist, social entrepreneur & educator, tackling complex social issues around equality, diversity and inclusion. She’s currently the head of Design Management and Innovation Track in M.Des in Industrial Design in Bezalel.

Rinat has over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of tech, Human Centered Design & social good. She’s the founder of Of Course Global, a social innovation design lab. Among their clients are: Capital One, Pfizer and the Swiss Government.

Rinat combines principles from biomimicry, Human Centered Design to create a cultural shift towards an egalitarian society (more in her TEDx Talk). She was chosen by the UN to speak in the UN Women Summit, March 2020 for Women's International Day.

She teaches at Parsons School of Design, NY and has previously taught and guest lectured in: Harvard, Columbia University, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Cooper Hewitt, School of Visual Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, College for Creative studies and Universidad San Francisco de Quito .

Her latest project 'What Would The Egg Do?' is a series of initiatives:

an exhibition, education curriculum and business workshops all exploring how ‘nature-inspired solutions’ can lead to a healthier planet & human equality. The exhibition curated by Rinat is presented in the XReality Center of The New School and opened on Women’s International Day 2021 in partnership with the Israeli Consulate.

Alongside his own artwork, Shouker initiates artwork and projects in collaboration with communities related to society and culture. In 1997 he initiated Pen Pal Project , which was the personal photographed correspondence between 500 Israeli and Palestinian youths via postcards, which was also presented as an exhibition in Israel and abroad. In 2008 he presented the wide-ranging exhibition The Pyramid Game , the result of a decade of research, which explored the sociological and economic structure of the Israeli art world. In 2004 he initiated the multi-departmental course at Bezalel entitled Art and Activism in the Public Space. In 2014 he won that year's Shosh Berlinski Prize from the Israel Council for Higher Education for an Outstanding Lecturer in the sphere of academia-community.
From 2008 to 2012 he held the voluntary position of Chairman of the Professional Union of Artists in the Fine Arts in Israel, and until 2016 he was advisor to the organization and its liaison with the establishment.
Shouker researches the field of cultural policy and has published studies and reports on the subject in Israel and abroad. Between 1992 and 2015 he owned and operated a studio for photography, advertising and PR. In 2014 he created the YouTube Pyramid Channel and developed a television-style format for items related to the politics and sociology of art and culture.

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I immigrated from South Africa with my husband in 1987. Our two children were born in Israel. I have been teaching English as a foreign language at the Hebrew University since 1991.

My first degree is in Psychology and History from UNISA (University of South Africa). I have a teaching Diploma and post-graduate degree in remedial Education from The University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and a master’s degree in English Literature from The Hebrew University.

In my years at the university I have taught English to students studying humanities, social sciences, sciences and nursing. I am looking forward to teaching new material to creative students and working with Joanna and the other members of English Unit.

I have always incorporated all four skills in teaching and I am happy that the MALAG has now made this approach official. I believe Bezalel students want to be part of the international academic community.  Proficiency in English is essential to achieve this goal.

I will be teaching the basic level course. This course aims at building a solid foundation in English; preparing for the challenges of the higher levels and increasing confidence to use English both academically and for everyday usage.

A historian of visual art and lecturer. Involved with the fields of Israeli art and modern Jewish art.

2012 - Ph.D., Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Title: Cross-Stitching Cross-Cultural Identities: Elaine Reichek's Art of Text and Textile.

2003 - M.A. Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Title: Micha Ullman: The Quiet Dialogue, Hidden Sculptures in Public Space.

Dr. Yona Weitz is a field anthropologist (Ph.D), a Researcher and a Lecturer teaching in the undergraduate Department of Visual and Material Culture studies and in M.Des, the Graduate Industrial Design Programme in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Yona`s research, teaching and mentoring work in Bezalel focuses on human based research & toolkits for design, social design, design management and urban socio-spatial analysis for site planning.