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 - Equal Opportunities
Dean of Students
דקנאט הסטודנטים
مكتب عميد الطلبة
Equal Opportunities
Bezalel advises Arab students throughout their academic track, from the inquiry phase throughout their years of study, until they integrate into the workforce. Within this framework, they are offered assistance and support services to help them adjust on all levels – personal, social, academic and cultural.
Preparatory program for the Arab Society
The preparatory program is a five-month intensive curriculum aimed at preparing the students for academic life at Bezalel, exposing them to the world of art, design and architecture, while gaining hands-on experience with materials, techniques and in-depth artistic processes. During the program, the participants gain significant tools for their academic studies as well as art, design and architecture studies, as they build their own portfolio. All this, concurrent with personal guidance, preparation for entry exams and one-on-one work with each candidate. The program is led by staff from the different departments, artists and graduates.
For more information and registration
One Step Ahead
A summer program for newly admitted students allows them to begin their course of study before the academic year begins, thus contributing to the success of its participants. The program includes: a bundle of electives, including Hebrew and English courses, mandatory courses from the Department of Visual and Material Culture, a course in academic reading, courses dealing with Palestinian culture, identity and art, and various workshops ahead of the new academic year.
For more information and registration: [2]
Absorption in Academic Life
The absorption in academic life array includes, among other things, the following components:
- Workshops on different topics – learning strategies, coping with pressure, test anxiety and receiving feedback, tools and rules for writing academic papers and more.
- Study groups for different courses
- Private mentorship
- Mental health counselling
- Cultural activity
- “Native language” lecture series – a series of lectures for Arab-speaking students, inviting key figures in the Palestinian art and culture world for lectures, discussions and dialogues observing the experiences of Palestinian students in the academia.
Career Center
The aim of the center is to help guide and integrate the students and graduates in the world of art design and architecture and in the workforce. The center provides students and graduates with knowledge and skills, such as building a website and artist’s credo, and helps them later on in developing their career through personal career counselling and guidance, workshops, lectures, marathon days, meetings with key figures in their areas of study, and more.
Students from the Arab society are invited to contact the coordinators:
Coordinator for Arab society academic accessibility, Marwa Bakri marwab@bezalel.ac.il
Project Coordinator for Arab society academic accessibility, Hana Kopti apc@bezalel.ac.il
Absorption in Academia Program Coordinator, Arab society accessibility, Danielle Zini danielle@bezalel.ac.il
Bezalel grants assistance to students of Ethiopian decent, aided by the Planning and Budgeting (PBC) Committee of the Council for Higher Education (CHE). This aid is granted on a personal level, academic coping, social, financial as well as custom-tailored to each and every student, in order to allow for genuine equal opportunity, reduce dropout rate and provide optimal conditions for academic success.
The full aid package includes the following components:
- Academic support through individual mentorship
- Social mentorship for first-year students
- Emotional-mental counseling during crises
- Sponsoring evaluations for students with learning disabilities
- Assistance in paying for dormitories or rent, and in covering transportation costs, based on their socioeconomic status.
For further details, contact the Dean’s Office staff as follows:
Academic and emotional support - Liora Tass: liora@bezalel.ac.il
First-year absorption and social mentorship – Tamar Arman: tamara@bezalel.ac.il
Financial aid – Aidan Naftali: aidan@bezalel.ac.il
For information about the academic excellence program for students of Ethiopian decent on the CHE website click here
The Dean’s Office offers support services to students whose native language is not Hebrew, aimed at easing their absorption on a personal, academic and social level. Among other things, the support array includes mentorship, guidance, and test modification. Students who are new immigrants, or are temporary residents (or on visa) can receive assistance from the Dean’s Office with paying tuition, with a living stipend and with dormitories. For details, please contact the Dean’s Office directly at 6 Hillel St., Jerusalem, Tel: 02-6214555 (or via your immigration representative overseas).
For individual assistance tailored to specific needs, contact Liora Tass by email: liora@bezalel.ac.il
Pregnant and post-natal students, as well as students undergoing fertility treatments are eligible for adaptations according to academic regulations. Most of their rights include: absence from class, modifications on papers and exams (postponing deadlines for paper submission, makeup exams, extra time, etc.), extending the course of study without paying additional tuition, as well as parking permits on campus. These benefits and modifications are given for pregnancy and post-natal students, as detailed below in the full version of the rules.
For information regarding the full rights and assistance click here
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Seminar - the other face - the visual at Agnon's
הישגים משמעותיים בשנת 2020
Honours & Accolades
פרסים והישגים
جوائز ومراتب شرف
Notable Accolades 2020
In 2020, 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
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מנהל אקדמי - צוות
Academic Administration
מנהל אקדמי
الإدارة الأكاديمية
איור ועיצוב
Contact Info
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יצירת קשר
اتصل بنا
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Campus
Address: 1 Zmora Street, Jerusalem, 9515701
Email: A complete list of email addresses appears below
For inquiries regarding registration for studies at Bezalel, you can send a WhatsApp message
Public Transport:
Buses to Bezalel’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Campus: 1,17, 18, 19, 22, 34, 66, 71, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78 and other.
Light Rail: Jaffa center/Municipality station.
Administrative Units
President's Office
CEO's Office
Deputy CEO
Resource Development & Communications
Human Resources
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Marketing, Media & Events
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IT & Computing
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Academic Departments - Undergraduate
Department of Visual Communication
Blanche & Romie Shapiro Department of Fine Arts
Department of Screen-Based Arts
Department of Jewelry & Fashion
Department of Photography
Department of Ceramics & Glass Design
Polonsky Department of Industrial Design
Department of Visual & Material Culture
Jack D. Weiler School of Architecture
Academic Departments - Graduate
Master's Program in Industrial Design (M.Des.)
Master's Program in Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Master's Program in Visual Communication (M.Des.)
Master's Program in Policy & Theory of the Arts (M.A.)
Master's Program in Urban Design (M.Urb.Des.)
Additional Programs
The Art & Design Teaching Center
Research & Innovation Authority
Office of International Academic Affairs
The Haredi Branch
Academic Departments
Architecture (B.ARCH.)
Ceramics and Glass Design (B.F.A.)
Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Industrial Design (B.DES.)
Industrial Design (M.DES.)
Jewelry and Fashion (B.F.A.)
Landscape Architecture (B.L.A.)
Photography (B.F.A.)
Policy and Theory of the Arts (M.A.)
Screen-Based Arts (B.F.A.)
The School of Architecture
Unit for External Studies
Urban Design (M.URB.DES.)
Visual and Material Culture (B.A.)
Visual Communication (B.DES.)
Visual Communication (M.DES.)
Studio 6-8
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יצירת קשר
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Mount Scopus Campus
Address: 1 Martin Buber Street, Jerusalem
Mailing Address: POB 24046, Jerusalem 9124001
Phone: (972)-2-5893333
Fax: (972)-2-5823094
Email Address: mail@bezalel.ac.il
Public Transport:
Buses to Bezalel’s Mt. Scopus Campus:
From the City Center - 17, 4A, 30, 19
From the Central Bus Station and Train Station: 68, 69
Once inside the Campus follow directional signage to the Bezalel building.
Academic Departments
Architecture (B.ARCH.)
Ceramics and Glass Design (B.F.A.)
Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Industrial Design (B.DES.)
Industrial Design (M.DES.)
Jewelry and Fashion (B.F.A.)
Landscape Architecture (B.L.A.)
Photography (B.F.A.)
Policy and Theory of the Arts (M.A.)
Screen-Based Arts (B.F.A.)
The School of Architecture
Unit for External Studies
Urban Design (M.URB.DES.)
Visual and Material Culture (B.A.)
Visual Communication (B.DES.)
Visual Communication (M.DES.)
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Design and Technology Track
Design and Technology Track
מסלול עיצוב וטכנולוגיה
تصميم وتكنولوجيا
The technological domain reinvents almost every field in our lives – agriculture and communication, relationships and education, transportation and health – changing the social fabric. Technological developments are created with the promise to disrupt the familiar fields, promote entire markets and industries and to change the future of mankind for the better.
The technological domain reinvents almost every field in our lives – agriculture and communication, relationships and education, transportation and health – changing the social fabric. Technological developments are created with the promise to disrupt the familiar fields, promote entire markets and industries and to change the future of mankind for the better. Technology surrounds us, it merges with man and shapes him, which is why in the year 2021 the concept nearly lost its meaning. Against this background – the 'Design & Technology' Track is attempting to understand the concept of technology as a promise for a better future, or as a creative response to human action.
The designer mediates between the technological to the mundane, giving technology shape and flavor in order to make it accessible to human beings. The role of the designers is to imagine, develop intuition, and establish it, to be critical and creative in order to enable man to dictate the desired forms of interaction. Technology is a tool and expression for the accumulative knowledge of human society, and the track enables each student to engage in materials which occupy him/her and which encourage imagination and action in favor of creating a change for the better.
The track offers collaborations with leading companies and start-ups, exceptional academic and artistic collaborations. Below are the collaborations which took place in recent years:
- Collaboration with the Departments of Art and Industrial Engineering and Management at the Ben Gurion University on the subject of Robotics
- Continuous collaboration with Amit Zoran's laboratory at the Hebrew University on the subjects of Craft and Technology
- Research-design collaboration with the Institute of Industrial Science at the Tokyo University, which engages in Biotechnology and Transportation of the Future
- Collaboration with Intel Company in search for possible applications for generative models
Pagination