Tax deductible donations in the USA can be made to the Friends of Bezalel Inc., a 501c3 association:

1. Via Paypal
https://www.paypal.com/donate
2. Via Bank Transfer:

To make a gift by wire transfer:
Account Name: Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Inc.
Account No.: 03-6766-2
Bank: Israel Discount Bank of NY
Bank Address: 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY NY 10026
ABA No.: 026009768

To send a check:
Friends of Bezalel
Attention: Dana Gluck, Executive Director
244 5th Avenue, Suite 2734
New York, NY 10001
email: dg@bezalelfriends.org

For tax-deductible donations, Bezalel UK works under the auspices of UK Gives Ltd. (charity no. 1161366), as one of their Israeli-based projects.

To make your donation:

1. Via debit or credit card:
   https://secured.israelgives.org/pay/makedonation?MakeDonation=1&AmutaGovId=580044345
2. Via Bank Transfer:

Account: UK Gives Ltd.
Bank: Bank: Lloyds Bank
Sort code: 771703
Account: 39408560

For reference, please be sure to mark in the “notes/reference” the ID number of Bezalel Academy: 580044345

UK Gives will issue a tax receipt to your email, and we will send confirmation as well once we see the donation has gone through.

For more information:
Danna Heller
Bezalel UK Director, London
email: danna@bezaleluk.org

Tax deductible donations in Israel can be made directly to Bezalel Academy (a non-profit organization with Article 46A status)

1. Via Bank Transfer
Name of Account: Bezalel Academy
Name of Bank: Bank Leumi Le-Israel BM
Bank Code: 10
Branch Address: 1-3 Kiryat Hamada, Jerusalem
Branch: Jerusalem Main 901
Account no. 28780063
Swift No: LUMILITXXX
IBAN: IL810109010000028780063

2. Via debit or credit card (tax receipt also relevant for Canada and France)
https://secured.israelgives.org/pay/makedonation?MakeDonation=1&AmutaGovId=580044345

For more information:
Tali Dowek
Vice President for Resource Development
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem
email: tali@bezalel.ac.il

Help us Replenish Bezalel’s Emergency Student Support Fund.

“As you probably know the reality in Israel is a very complex one, and the choice to go on studying at Bezalel is not simple as one keeps asking himself what is the meaning of what I do, and how does what I do help...? Receiving this support shows me there are people who value and understand the power of art, and its ability to counter hate and propose other options other than violence and ignorance. Thank you for helping me keep walking on this path.” 

 – Student in the Master’s Program in Policy and Theory of the Arts, 2024

Bezalel Academy’s 2024-2025 academic year is underway with 2500 art and design students personifying humanistic, intellectual, and artistic enterprise.

Since October 7th, Bezalel Academy, Friends of Bezalel, and Bezalel UK have committed to providing all students with the financial support they need and with essential academic and emotional assistance.

Last year our Emergency Student Support Fund provided 360 tuition scholarships, personal and group counseling sessions, and other mental health support to 1589 students, and individualised academic tutoring and assistance to 370 reservists and 249 students in need.

This year too, we are hoping you will rally once more and come to our students’ aid.

We have, therefore, launched an international month-long campaign to replenish the Emergency Student Support Fund, to boost the Academy’s resilience so it can continue to provide a lifeline to Israel’s next generation of cultural leaders.

We hope the campaign will make a considerable dent in the $600,000 we need to raise this academic year. Every sum we raise will go directly to a student in need. 

Please consider helping us reach this goal by donating today:

DONATE TODAY

More donation options available above, under “How to Make a Donation”.

We are grateful for your help.

In October 2022, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem will welcome its students and faculty members to its new home in the heart of Jerusalem.

Click here for more information on our New Campus

Bezalel’s extensive support network includes scholarships that embrace a wide-range of possibilities and populations: from tuition and housing, assistance and mentoring support for students with financial needs and learning disabilities, to discharged soldiers, new immigrants, Arabic-speaking students and students with special needs, among others.

For Information on student scholarship support options please contact: development@bezalel.ac.il

Bezalel is spearheading the exploration and development of the promising new field of art and design research, which applies singular strategies to the investigation of a wide range of challenging scientific, intellectual and social problems. This enables the Academy to produce innovative, useful and groundbreaking results while remaining both scholarly and imaginative.

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Design thinking is an integral component of today’s technological revolution. This new reality is particularly critical in Israel, which is renowned for its innovative high-tech sector. Bezalel helps its students and faculty become involved in this pioneering convergence of art and technology, design and innovation, science and creativity, by introducing them to the requisite terminology and skill sets and mentoring them as they find their place in this expanding ecosystem. Their efforts focus on channeling research results into entrepreneurial enterprises and creating solutions that will enhance everyday life, leading the way in this exciting era of advances and innovation.

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Bezalel believes that creating an outstanding professional infrastructure for continuous teaching development will produce a more meaningful learning and teaching experience for both students and teachers, particularly in the distinctive environment of an art and design academic educational institution. The Academy’s unique Teaching Center focuses on augmenting the abilities of Bezalel’s educators to maximize every student’s potential while examining the optimal methodology for teaching art and design. The Center’s continuing research is intended to improve data-driven teaching and to apply lessons from arts and design pedagogy to all fields of higher education.

Click here for more information on the Center

Bezalel has nine departments that offer undergraduate degrees: Industrial Design; Ceramics and Glass Design; Visual Communication; Fine Art; Screen-Based Arts; Photography; Jewelry and Fashion Design; Architecture; and Visual and Material Culture. All departments would appreciate assistance in awarding Prizes for Excellence, Tuition Scholarships, support for Student Exchanges Abroad, grants for Young Graduates, the acquisition of equipment and materials and funding for workshops, seminars and exhibitions.

Please visit our BA department pages via the links above to learn more about each of our Undergraduate Departments

Bezalel has five graduate programs: Master in Fine Arts (M.F.A.); Master in Industrial Design; Master in Policy and Theory of the Arts; Master in Urban Design; and Master in Visual Communication. Their programmatic needs include underwriting for the Annual Graduates Exhibitions, Residencies; New Technology Integrations; and International Faculty Exchanges.

Please visit our Master's program pages via the links above to learn more about each of our Graduate Programs

Bezalel has always understood that its faculty and students can make a unique contribution to the world around them; that as artists and designers they can be agents of cultural innovation and examples of responsible citizenship in the public, private and non-profit sectors. For decades, the Academy’s faculty and students have embraced community involvement – creating social, educational and environmental programs for schoolchildren and teenagers, for people with disabilities and for the disadvantaged – throughout the city and country. Bezalel has added to these extensive efforts by expanding its academic agenda to include courses that marry these vital issues and challenges with practical programs and concrete outreach efforts.

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Through its collaborations with over 180 of the world’s best art schools and academic institutions – and a growing number of partnerships and relationships with galleries, institutes and multinational companies worldwide – Bezalel is recognized by its peers for the caliber of its curriculum, renowned guest lecturers, cooperative research projects and outstanding faculty exchange programs. Bezalel also offers an exceptionally extensive student exchange program, collaborating with over leading academic institutions in Asia, Europe, the US, South America and Australia.

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