Professor Boris Schatz proposes establishing an arts and crafts school in the Land of Israel to Theodore Herzl.

The Seventh Zionist Congress in Basel passes a resolution to establish the "Bezalel" School of Art.

Professor Schatz establishes the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem.

The Bezalel School moves to new buildings, adds new departments expands its scope of activities.

With the advent of  World War I, Bezalel faces political, financial and management difficulties.

The Turks deport Boris Schatz. Bezalel shuts down  until British General Allenby enters Jerusalem in late 1917.

Schatz returns. The School resume’s instruction in painting and sculpture along with carpet making, metalworking and woodcarving crafts.

With Bezalel in financial difficulty, Schatz travels abroad to raise funds and the School closes down temporarily 

Schatz dies in the U.S. while on tour with a roving exhibition of works by Bezalel’s artists.

The New Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts opens headed by renowned Berlin print artist Josef Budko.

Josef Budko dies. The artist Mordechai Ardon, a disciple of the Bauhaus school, succeeds him.

Bezalel’s enrollment booms. For the first time, the new students include are concentration camps survivors.

The State of Israel is founded. Bezalel expands it curriculum and becomes Israel’s premier academy of arts.

Sculptor Zeev Ben-Zvi is named to head Bezalel. Israel’s government begins to provide funding to the School.

The New Bezalel School is declared an Academy of Art, enrollment exceeds 200, the building is expanded.

The Bezalel Academy of Art receives the Israel Prize on the occasion of Israel’s tenth Independence Day.

New Bezalel Head Dan Hofner works intensely to change the school’s legal, financial and academic status.

The Council for Higher Education recommends the school become The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

Bezalel  awarded status of an academic institution. Graduates receive B.A. degrees appropriate to their discipline.

The Photography Department’s curricular program qualified for a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree.

The Environmental and Industrial Design Department split. The Environmental Design Department requests permission to award a degree in Architecture.

All Bezalel’s departments and administrative offices move to a newly constructed building on Mount Scopus.

In a  Bezalel first, Architecture Department graduates awarded a Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch.) degrees.

On Israel’s 50th anniversary, Bezalel launches the “Continuity & Change” exhibition in Jerusalem.

Bezalel’s request to launch a master’s degree programs in Fine Arts and Industrial Design is approved.

A Fashion Design Program a Cinematography, Video & New Media Unit approved. Professor Arnon Zuckerman named President.

The Ministerial Committee on Jerusalem Affairs allocates a plot in central Jerusalem the for Bezalel’s relocation.

Bezalel's 100th Anniversary celebration opens with an exhibit on Professor Boris Schatz at the Israel Museum.

Bachelor of Screen-Based Arts program approved; request for a Master of Fine Arts Theory and Policy program submitted.

The Architecture Department’s Master of Urban Design program is approved.

Bezalel’s Architecture Department lauded as one of Israel’s leaders for its intellectual, social and cultural approach.

The Council for Higher Education approves the Bezalel Campus move to the Russian Compound in central Jerusalem.

Bezalel wins the Council for Higher Education's Shosh Berlinski Schoenfeld Prize for Social Involvement in the Community.

For the first time in Israel, the Council for Higher Education authorizes an academic orthodox religious Bezalel extension.

The Bezalel and the Jerusalem Development Authority Center for Digital Media and Design opens with degree programs.

The Japanese architectural firm SANAA’s plans for the new campus are approved. Prof. Adi Stern is named President.

Construction of campus begins. The academic year opens with 2300 students, 500 faculty members and 14 Departments.