Doing Good | Bezalel-led Emergency Initiatives
עושים/ות משהו טוב | יוזמות בשעת חירום
أعمال خيرية | مبادرات طلابية من بتسلئيل للمساعدة في وضع الطوارئ
Elective course
Dean - Academic Excellence
Dean of Students
דקנאט הסטודנטים
مكتب عميد الطلبة
Prizes for Academic Excellence
The Academy promotes the success of its students and encourages academic excellence. The following are prizes awarded annually at the Academy based on the achievement of its students. The process of recipient selection is overseen by the Dean of Students Office.
Prizes:
Moshik Ben-Dor Prize
All the Departments
About the prize: The Prize in memory of Moshik Ben-Dor, who fell during the Yom Kippur War, is awarded to an outstanding student who volunteers in the community.
Revital Seri Prize
All the Departments
About the prize: The Revital Seri Memorial Prize was established by the Bezalel Lecturers’ Association and is awarded to a student for academic excellence.
Deane and Paul Shatz Prize for an Outstanding Project in the Field of Community Involvement
All the Departments
About the prize: The Paul and Deane Shatz Prize is awarded to students in their second to fourth year of studies for outstanding "social product:" a product/poster/work/campaign submitted as part of classes that incorporate social involvement in the Academy.
Artist Herman Struck Prize
All the Departments
About the prize: The annual Prize in memory of the artist Herman Struck is awarded for outstanding works in the field of artistic printing: engraving, lithography, silkscreen printing, woodcut, linocut and/or a combination of techniques.
Andy Prize 2.0
Departments: Ceramics and Glass Design, Jewelry and Fashion
About the prize: The Andy Prize 2.0 in memory of Andy Bronfman (Cohen) is donated by her children and their families and is awarded to three final year students who have excelled in their studies and show outstanding achievements within the craft’s fields: glass, ceramics, jewelry, accessories and shoes.
Ilana Elovic Prize
Department: Fine Arts
About the prize: The Prize in memory of Ilana Elovic is donated by Dr. Eugene Elovic and is awarded to a Bezalel graduate for excellence in the field of fine arts. Learn more about Ilana Elovic here.
Elly and Joachim Meisler Prize for Outstanding Design
Departments: Visual Communication, Industrial Design, Jewelry and Fashion, Ceramics and Glass Design, Architecture
About the prize: Meira Meisler, a graduate of the Jewelry Design Department at Bezalel, established the Elly and Joachim Meisler Prize in memory of her parents, who had been among Bezalel’s most loyal supporters. The Prize is awarded for outstanding work in the field of design.
Lauren and Mitchell Presser Prize
Departments: Fine Arts, Photography
About the prize: The Lauren and Mitchell Presser Prize is awarded to fourth-year students for excellence in the fields of painting, photography and/or video art.
Moussia Toulman Prize
Department: Fine Arts, Ceramics and Glass Design
About the prize: The annual prize in memory of the artist Moussia Toulman was donated by the artist's niece, Malka Ben Yossef z"l and is awarded to students for outstanding achievements in plastic arts.
Yossi Berger Prize
Department: Photography
About the prize: The Prize is awarded to a student for outstanding work in photography, in memory of Yossi Berger who served as Head of the Department of Photography from 2000 to 2006.
Deborah Blumenthal Prize
Department: Ceramics and Glass Design
About the prize: The prize is donated by the Blumenthal family in memory of ceramic artist Deborah Blumenthal and is awarded for one or more excelling final projects at the end of the fourth year of study.
Josef and Ada Bolaffio Prize
Department: Visual and Material Culture
About the prize: The Josef and Ada Bolaffio Prize was donated in their memory by their daughter, Nora Aviad z"l, and is awarded for academic excellence in the Department of Visual and Material Culture.
Shirli Bracha Prize
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The Prize in memory of Shirli Bracha was donated by her family for projects dealing with Judaism in visual communication.
Aileen S. Cooper Prize
Department: Fine Arts
About the prize: The Prize is awarded to students from their second year onward who display outstanding creative thinking in their studies.
Myron Cooper Prize
Department: Fine Arts
About the prize: The Myron Cooper Prize is awarded to students in their second year onward who display outstanding creative thinking in their studies.
Ami Drach Prize
Department: Industrial Design
About the prize: The prize in memory of Ami Drach, head of the Department of Industrial Design from 2004 to 2008, is awarded for a unique project intended for communities with special needs.
Oved Eitan Prize
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The prize in memory of Oved Eitan for printing expenses is awarded to students for excellence.
Yitzhak and Eva Elfer Prize
Department: Ceramics and Glass Design
About the prize: The prize in memory of Yitzhak and Eva Elfer is donated in their memory by Beverley Tarshish and Andrew Lengyel and is awarded for outstanding achievement in clay.
Ehud Elhanani Prize
Department: Fine Arts
About the prize: The Ehud Elhanani Memorial Prize is awarded to a graduate of the Fine Arts department to assist in his or her first steps as an artist.
Mike Felheim Prize
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The prize in memory of Professor Mike Felheim, who was head of the Department of Visual Communication for many years, is awarded to a student in the Department for unique work in Typographical Design. The Prize was established with donations from members of Bezalel Academy's faculty, staff, management and the Felheim family.
Aharon Gelles Prize
Department: Industrial Design
About the prize: The Prize in honor of Aharon Gelles, graduate of the Department of Graphic Design (now the Department of Visual Communication) and among the founders of the Department of Industrial Design, is awarded to a student for developmental consistency and advancement in studies in the Department of Industrial Design.
Evelyn Graber Prize
Department: Jewelry and Fashion
About the prize: The Prize was donated by Evelyn Graber of New York to be awarded for designs of a Jewish ritual object. All students who prepare works in the area of Judaica during the year can submit candidacy for this Prize.
Rami Halperin Prize
Department: Photography
About the prize: The Prize in memory of Rami Halperin, a photographer by nature and profession, who fell during the Yom Kippur War, is awarded to students whose work and creative activities demonstrate an understanding of photography and a unique approach to the field. The Prize was established by the Halperin family and the Rami Halperin Memorial National Fund Board of Trustees, and is intended to advance and promote the study of photography at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Candidates for the Prize are students who employ photography as a visual medium of expression and who submit work they have done within the context of their studies.
Lilian Isaacson Prize
Department: Ceramics and Glass Design
About the prize: The Lilian Isaacson Prize is awarded for excellence in ceramic design for second and third-year students.
Keren Keshet Prize
Department: Fine Arts
About the prize: The Keren Keshet (Rainbow Foundation) Prize is donated by Avi Chai Foundation and awarded annually to a graduate of the department.
Dorothy Kertesz Bezalel Comics Prize
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The Bezalel Comics Prize, donated by Mrs. Dorothy Kertesz, is awarded to students who display outstanding talent in the field of comics.
Michael and Pauline Lockman Prize for Applied Design
Department: Jewelry and Fashion
About the prize: The prize was donated by the late Michael and Pauline Lockman to encourage students in applied design of jewelry or Judaica.
Carol Manheim Prize for Illustrated Children's Books
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The Carol Manheim Prize for Illustrated Children's Books, donated by Mrs. Carol Manheim, is awarded for extraordinary works in the field of illustrated children's books.
Herbert and Edith Meyers Prize in Package Design
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The Herbert and Edith Meyers Prize is awarded for excellence in the field of package design.
Sylvie Nisbet Prize
Department: Ceramics and Glass Design
About the prize: The Prize is awarded in memory of ceramicist Sylvia Nisbet of the UK for departmental excellence in the pottery track.
Ehud and Ilana Pecker Prize
Department: Fine Arts
About the prize: The Ehud and Ilana Pecker Prize is donated in their memory by their daughters, Dana , Yael and Ruth Pecker, and is awarded for academic excellence.
Rashbel Prize in Honor of Shimon Lavi
Department: Jewelry and Fashion
About the prize: The Rashbel Prize for academic excellence in memory of Shimon Lavi is awarded to students in the Department for the purposes of purchasing materials at Rashbel, a store for equipment and materials for jewelry-making, which has been supporting outstanding students at Bezalel's Jewelry program for many years.
The Rea Print House Prize
Department: Photography
About the prize: The Rea Print House Prize, donated by Rea Ben David, owner of the Rea Print House, is awarded for academic excellence in the Department of Photography.
Eitan Ron Prize
Department: Jewelry and Fashion
About the prize: The Eitan Ron Memorial Prize was established by the Ron family of Kibbutz Yehiam to commemorate Eitan, who fell during the Yom Kippur War, and is awarded annually for a piece of jewelry designed in the department.
Sandberg Prize
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The Prize in memory of Dr. Willem Sandberg of Amsterdam is awarded to graduates of the Department of Visual Communication for extraordinary achievements as presented in a personal exhibition by the Department’s fourth-year students.
Pinchas Sapir Prize
Department: Industrial Design
About the prize: The Pinchas Sapir Prize is awarded for an outstanding graduate work with the best model in industrial design.
Shimon Schestowitz Prize
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The Shimon Schestowitz Prize is awarded to students for outstanding work in the field of Israeli design.
Haim Schiff Prize for Figurative Realist Painting
Department: Fine Arts
About the prize: The Haim Schiff Prize is awarded to students in the Department of Fine Arts for figurative realist painting in order to promote Israeli art. Haim Schiff was a hotelier and an avid collector of Israeli art who devoted much to cultivate artists and original artwork in Israel. The prize was donated in his memory by his son, Dubi Schiff.
Romie and Blanche Shapiro Prize in Judaica
Department: Jewelry and Fashion
About the prize: The Romie and Blanche Shapiro Prize is awarded for outstanding work in the field of Judaica – the design of sacred objects. The Prize was donated by Romie and Blanche Shapiro of New York in order to encourage the making of Judaica items and to affect the design of objects in this field in Israel and around the world.
Isaaca Siegal Prize
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The Isaaca Siegal Prize is awarded to a female student for excellence.
Yossi Stern Prize
Department: Visual Communication
About the prize: The Prize in memory of Yossi Stern, painter, illustrator and Bezalel graduate and faculty member, is awarded to graduates of the Department for outstanding achievements in the field of illustration.
Adam Tihany Prize
Department: Industrial Design
About the prize: The Prize was donated by Rivka Saker in honor of renowned architect and interior designer Adam Tihany and is awarded to students in the Department of Industrial Design for works in the field of furniture design.
Artist Gyula Zilzer Prize
Department: Fine Arts
About the prize: The American Friends of Bezalel Academy donated this Prize in honor of the artist Gyula Zilzer. The Prize is awarded to a student for academic excellence.
Every year Bezalel Academy itself awards prizes for academic excellence to undergraduate and graduate students from all the departments at the Academy.
Prizes for Academic Excellence – Undergraduate Degree
These prizes are awarded to students based on their achievements within their departments:
Architecture
Ceramics and Glass Design
Fine Arts
Industrial Design
Jewelry and Fashion
Photography
Screen-Based Arts
Visual Communication
Visual and Material Culture*
* The Department of Visual and Material Culture Prizes are given to students across Bezalel for courses taken within the Department both for academic excellence and for academic excellence with distinction (average of 90 and above).
Prizes for Academic Excellence – Graduate Degrees
These prizes are awarded to students for academic excellence based on their achievements in the previous year.
Departments:
Fine Arts (M.F.A)
Industrial Design (M.Des)
Policy and Theory of the Arts (M.A)
Urban Design (M.Urb.Des)
Visual Communication (M.Des)
Seminar - education
Guiding Principles
About Bezalel
אודות בצלאל
حول بتسلئيل
Guiding Principles
Bezalel’s mission is to educate, inform and nurture the next generation of aspiring artists, designers and architects.
Drawing from our local inspiration. With a belief that artists and designers must learn to incorporate themselves, their backgrounds and their surroundings into their work, Bezalel urges its students draw upon local inspiration to strengthen their expressive efforts. By examining the confluence of contrasting cultures, styles and values that Jerusalem and Israel present, students are taught how such interaction produces more insightful and exciting possibilities.
Engaging with the world. To prepare its students to go out onto the world and take their place on the global stage, the Academy exposes them to the conversations taking place on the local and international scene. It motivates them to engage and respond to universal challenges by questioning, researching, defining and redefining concepts and ideas and to offer new perspectives and solutions.
Championing equity, diversity and independent thinking. Bezalel’s commitment to a diverse population of students and faculty is well reflected in their multifaceted profiles. Stemming from all segments of society, this dynamic mix of people of varied religious, cultural and socioeconomic origins and affiliations enriches and energizes the Academy, furthering disparate viewpoints and stimulating original and independent thinking.
Melding the past, present and future. As the acknowledged guardian of Israel’s artistic heritage, Bezalel is dedicated to protecting time-honored crafts and techniques while simultaneously broadening and strengthening them with new ideas and new directions. Each of its undergraduate and graduate degree programs present students with traditional knowledge, tools and materials collected over many decades alongside hands-on workshops that use sophisticated software and novel technologies, styles and methodologies to inspire and innovate.
Reimagining the future. The Academy trains its students to be agents of change – artists and designers who can integrate their intellectual curiosity with their professional skills to address the complex issues confronting humanity, providing them with the critical ability to research, evaluate and affect the social and ethical impact of emerging technologies with an openness to the unknown and the unexpected – and in the process, creating a cadre of leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs who will dramatically transform our lives.
Connecting with the community. Throughout their Bezalel experience, students and faculty are encouraged to take an active role in the communities they live in to understand and demonstrate that as artists and designers their creative citizenship can make important and meaningful contributions to the world around them.
אנימציה למעצבים
חוות המחשבים - מידע
Computer Labs & Printing Center
חוות מחשבים ומרכז הדפסות
غرفة الكمبيوتر ومركز الطابعات
Computer Labs are located on the 5th and 9th floors of the Mount Scopus Campus, in the Department of Architecture building downtown, and in Haredi Extension. The Labs offer students and faculty comfortable work spaces equipped with printers, scanners, light tables, stop motion rooms, cintiqs and a guillotine.
Please allow for overload, malfunctions and long lines during presentation week and avoid showing up to print on the morning of your presentation. It is advisable to print in advance.
Do not save your work on the computers in the main Lab since all materials are deleted when the computers are shut down. Please save your files to your personal storage (disk-on-key, hard drive, email, etc.).
Computer Lab assistants are at on-site to help you.
Laser Printing Price List
Printer |
|
A4 (NIS) |
A3 (NIS) |
Black |
B&W |
0.12 |
0.24 |
Color |
Color/B&W |
0.30/1.20 |
0.60/2.40 |
Fiery |
Color/B&W |
0.35/1.30 |
0.70/2.60 |
Unique |
Color/B&W |
2 |
4 |
Instructions for paying with a credit card (PDF)
Instructions for paying with cash (PDF)
Instructions for printing with Eazix automatic plotter
Eazix is an outside company that allows students to print in wide formats without having to book an appointment in advance.
There is an Eazix post site in the 9th floor Computer Lab on the Mount Scopus campus, and one in the Department of Architecture building downtown.
* Please make sure that you are sending your file to the right post.
Instructions for printing using Eazix plotter
For any questions, please contact the company that operates the printers:
At 03-3746962
Email support@eazix.io
Software installed in the computer rooms on the 9th floor
The 9th floor computers have software for the use of the students and the faculty.
There are 2D software from the Adobe Create Cloud.
There are also various 3D software like Keyshot, Rhino, Cinema 4D and more.
You can consult the assistants or Lab staff about specific software that is not on the list.
Animation – Stop Motion Rooms and Cintiqs
The Computer Lab on the 5th floor serves mostly for animation.
On the 5th floor, you can also find the following services:
- Stop motion rooms
Instructions for using the stop motion rooms (pdf)
Cintiqs
Instructions for using digital animation and drawing devices - cintiqs (pdf)
UX Interactive Design Lab
Support Bezalel
Support Bezalel
תמיכה בבצלאל
إدعموا بتسلئيل
Your support can make a significant difference in the lives of our students, in the continuing expansion of our scope and vision, in the form and functions that Bezalel can and will embrace in the years to come – in our dreams and our deeds.
Please stand with us as we educate, inform and nurture the next generation of aspiring artists, designers and architects. Please help our students hone their nascent talents to transform the art and design world with pioneering originality and creativity. Please help ensure our unique approach to teaching and learning continues to set the standard and lead the way in Israel and abroad.
Please partner with us as Bezalel proudly builds for the future.
How to make a Donation:
Tax deductible donations in the USA can be made to the Friends of Bezalel Inc., a 501c3 association:
1. Via debit or credit card
https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=rbKoL9
2. Via Bank Transfer:
The banking details of the American Friends of Bezalel, is as follows:
Account Name: Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Inc.
Account No.: 03-6766-2
Bank: Israel Discount Bank of NY
Bank Address: 511 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017
ABA No.: 026009768
For more information:
Dana Gluck
Executive Director
Friends of Bezalel
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:
- Via debit or credit card:
https://secured.israelgives.org/pay/makedonation?MakeDonation=1&AmutaGovId=580044345 - 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
What to Support:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (MFA); 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 MA 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.
Click for more detailed information on our Outreach Programs
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.
Click for more information on our International Collaborations
Donor Recognition
Bezalel would be pleased and proud to discuss the many options for tax-exempt contributions, the specifics of your gift and how we show our appreciation through public recognition of your support.
Your gift will help Bezalel sustain our mission and realize our vision. Your generosity will enable us to move forward with innovative and exciting new ideas that will dramatically impact the present and future. Your investment will enable us to proceed proudly into the future knowing that friends like you are standing alongside us.
Bezalel's Major Donors and Supporters
We would like to thank the following donors, foundations, and funds for their gifts to Bezalel. We are honored to have you among our partners as we pioneer originality and creativity, inspirre novel ideas and human-centered advances.
Romie and Blanche Shapiro z"l, USA
Dame Vivien Duffield, Clore Israel Foundation, Israel
Patrick and Lina Drahi Foundation
Polonsky Foundation, UK
The Russell Berrie Foundation, USA
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, USA
Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, Israel
Idan and Batia Ofer
William Davidson Foundation, USA
Marcella and Abner Brenner, USA
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
Charles Bronfman Family, Canada
Louise Yasgour, USA
Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation, UK
The Ted Arison Family Foundation
Linda and Ilan Kaufthal, USA
Basil Guralnick Bernstein MD, USA/Israel
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation, USA
Ralph Inbar z"l, The Netherlands
Maimonides Fund
David Berg Foundation, USA
Paul and Deane Shatz Foundation, USA
Denis Weil, Israel
Aileen S. Cooper, USA
Max Goldberg, USA
Lily Mars, USA
Michael and Pauline Lockman z”l, USA
Nicole and Raanan Agus, USA/Israel
Dr. Eugene Elovic and Family
Rivka Saker and Uzi Zucker, Israel/USA
Andy Bronfman z"l and Family, Canada/USA
מלכה בן יוסף ז"ל, ישראל
Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, UK
Arch. Tamara Herbstein z"l and Ing. Ozias Herbstein z"l, Israel
Prof. Edith Koyoumdjisky-Kaye z"l, Israel
Aaron Gutwirth Fund, Israel
Roe Green, USA
Ludwig and Erica Jesselson z"l, USA
Tibor Gerstl Trust, USA
Israel Scholarship Education Foundation (ISEF)
Alexander Grass Foundation, USA
Paul and Karen Levy Family Foundation, USA
Gabriel Sherover Foundation, Israel
Eytan Kaufman, USA
Shirley M. and Solomon M. Weiss, USA
Evelyn M. Graber and Harriette Graber-Siegel, USA
Edward Lee, UK
Orna Schestowitz, Israel
Kirsh Foundation
Sivia Loria, USA
Zvi Agmon, Israel
Lauren and Mitchell Presser, USA
David and Jennifer Millstone, USA
Liu Shiming Art Foundation, USA
The Gottesman Family, USA
Yad Hanadiv, Israel
Galit and Yosef Sela, Israel
Liora and Mickey Federmann, Israel
Richard Rubin, USA
Seminar
Clone of הישגים משמעותיים בשנת 2020
Honours & Accolades
פרסים והישגים
جوائز ومراتب شرف
Notable Accolades 2020-2021
In 2020-2021, Bezalel alumni, faculty and staff were recognized for their work and contributions to the world of art, design and creativity
Ella Ben Yacov and Anita Hagadust, graduates of the Screen-Based Arts Department, won the Best Short Film Prize at the Tel Aviv Jewish Film Festival with their graduation film “Essence.” The film centers on two Jewish girls who live in Iraq and Iran at different historical periods and drink tea with their families, each in their own unique way. Threats and persecutions force them to flee, leave everything behind, and immigrate to Israel.
Bezalel congratulates the artist Hilla Toony Navok, an alumna of the MFA program, on winning the 2020 Discount Bank Artistic Encouragement Award at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.
Each the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art bestows the Discount Artistic Encouragement Award to an Israeli artist in recognition of the art, the artists and the Museum. This year’s recipient is Hilla Toony Navok, an award-winning artist who works with sculpture and drawing. From the jury’s reasoning: “Hilla Toony Navok’s works draw their inspiration from the material Israeli environment surrounding her. In her work, familiar, readymade objects and accordingly acute realism, are coupled with geometric abstraction. Contemporaneity and modernism are combined with great talent, encapsulating expressions of humor and critique of our time.”
The lecturers of the Architecture Department are involved in significant projects on an urban scale in Israel and worldwide. Bezalel congratulates lecturers Architect Saar Gharan Levy and Architect Michael Walma van der Molen, on placing second in the public competition to plan the Sheba Station Bridge in Ramat Gan.
To read about the competition on the Israel Association of Architects and Urban Planners website
Bezalel congratulates Ana Warshavsky, a graduate of the Department of Visual Communication, on winning the Israel Museum’s 2020 Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustration of a Children's Book, for her illustrations for “Zerubbabel and Zilpa,” by Ronit Chacham (Agam Yaldut, 2019). As the jury stated: “Unruly and at times even ugly, the illustrations blend with the political and universal text to form a complex artwork, offering tomorrow’s children a narrative that is escapist, pragmatic and beautiful.”
All the illustrators who received honorable mentions are also alumni of the Department: Itay Bekin for his illustrations for “The Children’s Book of Silence” by Oren Lavie; Naama Benziman for her book “Lenny and Benny;” Omer Hoffmann for his book “The Boy Who Mailed His Family;” and Einat Tsarfati for her book “Sand Castle.”
Yuval Haker is an animation director and graduate of the Department of Visual Communication. After working on international projects (!Vox, Netflix and more), he was chosen as one of the 31 finalists in the international Young Guns 18 competition for emerging creatives, an award that honors a young creative's body of work over multiple years. In the context of the competition, Haker was also selected by the international artist management agency Levine/Leavitt for an artist-in-residence program. Hundreds of leading artists, filmmakers, animators, illustrators and designers competed for this prestigious position.
Established in 1988, the Mordechai Ish Shalom Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year to an Israeli artist for their body of work or contribution to the arts by the Painters and Sculptors Association and the Jerusalem Artists’ House. Bezalel congratulates the artist Talia Tokatly, on winning the 2021 Mordechai Ish Shalom Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a graduate of the Department of Ceramics and Glass Design, where she also served as a senior lecturer. From the jury’s reasoning: “Talia Tokatly is an exceptional artist whose work oscillates between high technical expertise in the field of ceramics and art for its own sake, which is not limited to material or subject, but is centered on the transformation of matter into spirit.”
Bezalel congratulates the five winners of the Dudu Geva Comics “Golden Duck” Award. They are all alumni and lecturers at the Department of Visual Communication.
Prof. Rutu Modan – Comic Book of the Year
Zeev Engelmayer – Superhero of the Year
Einat Tsarfati – Internet Comic Work of the Year
Hila Noam – Children's Comic Book of the Year
Keren Katz and Noa Katz – Comic Artists of the Year
Final project Supervision
Design and Innovation Management Track
Design and Innovation Management Track
מסלול ניהול עיצוב וחדשנות
إدارة التصميم والابتكار
The 'Design and Innovation Management' track enables designers to explore and develop in new areas in which the design toolbox constitutes a competitive advantage. The track deals the refinement of design thinking as a basis for innovation and social change through three major fields of knowledge: design as a strategic tool and as means for business growth, design as a research tool, and design as a tool for social change.
The 'Design and Innovation Management' track enables designers to explore and develop in new areas in which the design toolbox constitutes a competitive advantage. The track deals the refinement of design thinking as a basis for innovation and social change through three major fields of knowledge: design as a strategic tool and as means for business growth, design as a research tool, and design as a tool for social change.
Design as a strategic tool and as means for business growth
The track places the designer in a decision-making position and enables him/her to lead design thinking based processes and to make use of design methods to identify needs, analyze trends, characterize products and to design processes.
Design as a research tool
Over the course of their studies, students develop research and analysis methodologies which make use of tools from the world of design to identify needs and characterize design based solutions.
Design as a tool for social change
The studies develop a broad view of the environment in which the users act, mapping the complex system in which the product or service exists using tools and methodologies from the world of design.
Learning in the track is based on doing and collaborating with entities from the industry and public sector. Below are collaborations that took place in recent years as part of the track:
- Brainsway, Jolt – Designing an innovative strategy for a technological company, identifying the needs, developing the product and making it accessible to new audiences
- Joint Israel – Designing services for social equality through design thinking processes
- Ministry of Finance – Rethinking and designing insurance services in the Capital Market Authority
- Sabar Health – Development of design based projects in the field of home care nursing.
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