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עושים/ות משהו טוב | יוזמות בשעת חירום
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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.
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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
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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
Architect, Graduate of the Architecture department in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2014).During her studies, Ayelet participated in a spontaneous architecture project in India (SABA 2011). A collaborative project with the Department of Architecture of CEPT University, Ahmedabad. The project involved planning and building classrooms made of local materials for farmers and their children in the rural area of the Halvad desert.
In 2012, Ayelet participated in the student exchange program in FAUP, the Department of Architecture in Porto University, Portugal. During this program Ayelet was inspired by the Portuguese public domain architecture which aspires to integrate the design into the environment and society in which it resides.
Ayelet won the ‘Final Project Encouragement’ scholarship from the Schneidinger Foundation. In the project “Waiting for the next disaster”, Ayelet examined the idea of urban renewal and formulated a progressive strategy of public housing revival in Israel, where the underlining drive for renewal is an imminent disaster.
Since 2014 Ayelet has been a lecturer at the orthodox extension ‘Oman’ and the pre-studies department at Bezalel. In 2015 Ayelet joined ‘Shlomo Aharonson Architects’ office for landscape architecture and urban planning and in 2018 she founded BAAB company for architecture and interior design together with arch.Itai Bechor.
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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