Yakir Bezalel
The Yakir Bezalel Award is the Academy’s highest honor, the equivalent of an honorary doctorate given at universities. It is bestowed upon those whom the Academy wishes to honor and thank for their unique contribution to the betterment of the institution, to its tradition of quality and excellence in art and design education, to Israeli society or to the fields of art, design and architecture in Israel or abroad.
Justice Aharon Barak, Former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
Ms. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, International Artist and Lecturer
Mr. Ilan Kaufthal, Chairman of the American Friends of Bezalel
Ron Arad
Ronit Elkabetz z”l
Prof. Henriette Dahan Kalev
Prof. Zvi Tolkovsky
Soraya Sarah Nazarian
Salim Joubran
Yael Bartana
Professor Arye Kurzweil
Architect Ada Karmi-Melamede
Dr. Ran Sapoznik
Baroness Ariane de Rothschild
President of the State of Israel and his wife, Reuven (Ruvi) and Nechama Rivlin
Dr. Ilana Dayan
Prof. Yaacov Kaufman
Dame Vivien Duffield
Prof. Ran Shechori
Dr. Martin Weil
Prof. Yarom Vardimon
Danny Caravan
Gedula Ogen
David Ben-Shaul
Angelica Berrie
Prof. Pinchas Cohen Gan
Prof. Architect Shimon Shapiro
Jennifer V. Roth
Gideon Ofrat
Michal Rovner
Nora Aviad
Sammy Sagol
David Tartakover
Avigdor Arikha
Yona Fischer
Leonard Polonsky
Marcella Brenner
Prof. Arthur Goldreich
Morton Mandel
Rivka Saker
Moshe Gershuni
Prof. Micha Ullman
1995
Sam Seba
1993
Harry Sapir
1991
Erica Jesselson
1990
Zohara Schatz
Prof. Architect Bruno Zevi
1989
Ayala Zacks-Abramov
1988
Marcella Brenner
1987
Otto Treumann
1986
Prof. Dan Hofner
1985
Jack D. Weiler
1984
Romie Shapiro
1981
Dr. Mordecai Ardon
