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.

Bezalel moves to its new residence in the center of Jerusalem. The move to the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Campus marks Bezalel’s historic return to the heart of the city and constitutes a historic landmark for the Academy and for Jerusalem, bringing thousands of art, design and architecture students to live, study, create and operate in the heart of the city and its community. Stretching over 42,00 square meter, the building was designed by the Japanese architectural firm SANAA, winner of the Pritzker international architectural competition and one of the leading architectural firms in the world, in collaboration with Israel’s HQ Architects. This move creates an urban campus which includes the Historic Building where the School of Architecture resides, and the Bezalel dorms, all within a short walking distance from each other.