Doing Good | Bezalel-led Emergency Initiatives
עושים/ות משהו טוב | יוזמות בשעת חירום
أعمال خيرية | مبادرات طلابية من بتسلئيل للمساعدة في وضع الطوارئ
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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
Dr. Yona Weitz is a field anthropologist (Ph.D), a Researcher and a Lecturer teaching in the undergraduate Department of Visual and Material Culture studies and in M.Des, the Graduate Industrial Design Programme in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Yona`s research, teaching and mentoring work in Bezalel focuses on human based research & toolkits for design, social design, design management and urban socio-spatial analysis for site planning.
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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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Bezalel Graduates Exhibition
Galleries & Graduate Exhibitions
גלריה ואתרי בוגרים/ות
مواقع الخريجات\ين ومعرض
Bezalel’s Graduates Exhibition
At the end of each academic year, Bezalel invites the public to an exhibition showcasing the works of its graduating class from all the Academy’s departments.
The largest and most prestigious show of its kind in Israel – and one of the most impressive – the Bezalel’s End of Year Graduates Exhibition attracts tens of thousands of visitors, among them active designers, artists and art collectors along with prominent opinion leaders.
The Exhibition also attracts a wide audience of potential employers from a range of industries, from small studios to large companies, all wishing to be the first to recognize and recruit the new Bezalel graduates.
Bezalel’s End of Year Graduates Exhibition exemplifies the tools and training its students have acquired at the Academy as the perfect their craft and blaze their own unique trails in tomorrow’s world of art, design and architecture.
Undergraduate Sites
Departmental Galleries
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המרחב לפיתוח מקיים - צוות
Bezalel’s Sustainable Development Hub
המרחב לפיתוח מקיים
مركز التنمية المستدامة
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