77% of Nominees and Finalists for the Edmund de Rothschild Award for Design – Bezalel Graduates and Faculty

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem congratulates its graduates and faculty who were nominated for the Edmund de Rothschild Award for Design for 2024 – 77% of award nominees are Bezalel Academy graduates, professors, and lecturers. 

The Edmund de Rothschild Award for Design, founded by the Edmund de Rothschild Foundation, aims to promote and encourage excellence through public recognition of designers with a high caliber portfolio of significant volume, to identify and support emerging designers, boost local interest in contemporary design and enhance international exposure to Israeli design. Establishing a prestigious prize dedicated to contemporary Israeli design will enable designers to be seen and heard beyond the local professional space, with the aim of encouraging a variety of voices and new design works. 

The final list of nominees was compiled from over 200 portfolios of the designers who submitted nominations for the prize, which this year is being awarded in the field of visual communication. 

Candidates in the senior designer category: 
Amnon Illouz (Re-Levant), graduate 
Orit Bergman, graduate and lecturer 
Naomi Geiger, graduate, lecturer and Head of Design in the Department of Visual Communication 
Amit Trainin, graduate, lecturer and Head of Illustration in the Department of Visual Communication 
Koby Levy (The League), graduate and lecturer 
Michal Sahar, graduate and lecturer 
Prof. Merav Salomon, graduate, lecturer and Head of the Art & Design Teaching Center in Bezalel 

Candidates in the beginning designer category: 
Dan Azoulai, graduate 
Eitan Eloa, graduate and lecturer 
Anat Gutberg, graduate 
Anat Warshavsky, graduate and lecturer 
Rotem Cohen-Soaye, graduate 
Noa Katz, graduate and Master’s degree student in Visual Communication 
Almog Sela and Itamar Toren (True Twins), graduates and lecturers 
Nawal Arafat, lecturer 
Yoav Perry, graduate and lecturer 
Niv Tishbi, graduate