Doing Good | Bezalel-led Emergency Initiatives
עושים/ות משהו טוב | יוזמות בשעת חירום
أعمال خيرية | مبادرات طلابية من بتسلئيل للمساعدة في وضع الطوارئ
Transition into art: Contemporary Art from The Middle East
Art MeetsSocienty, Society Meets Art
Basic drawing
Board of Governors
Governance & Leadership
הנהלה ובעלי/ות תפקידים
الإدارة والمسؤولين
Board of Governors
Chairman of the Board of Governors - Adv. Gil Brandes
Chairman of the Board of Directors - Adv. Dan Meridor
Ika Abravanel
Raanan A. Agus
Adv. Anat Agmon
Moshe Amir
Ron Arad
Ruti Assis
Dr. Janet Aviad
Adv. Zvi Barak
Adv. Esther Barak Landes
Shimon Barzily
Eitan Ben Eliyahu
Rimon Ben Shaul
Gideon Ben-Zvi
Georg C Bertsch
Dafna Bester
Amir Biram
Roman Bronfman
Aviv Bushinsky
Arch. David Cassuto
Dr. Udi Dahan
Ilan de Vries
Nitza Drori Peremen
Dan Ellman
Dr. Eugene Elovic
Aaron Etra
Ami Federman
Chanan Getraide
Roni Gilat Baharaff
Arch. Asaf Gottesman
David Gradel
Roger Grass
Eyal Hacco
Paul Heldens
Dan Karavan
Ilan Kaufthal
Dorothy Kertesz
Adv. Elias David Khoury
Naomi Kolitz
Adv. Rami Kook
Amir Kozlovski
Yaron Kulas
Shlomi Lahav
David Lanir
Eti Lanski
Gil Levi
Adv. Ezri Levi
David Leviatan
Uzi Levy
Dov Mishor
Zahi Nahmias
Nira Nehama
Adi Nes
Joshua Neustein
Prof. Udi Nisan
Arch. Moran Palmoni
Dr. Leonard S. Polonsky
Ran Rahav
Jennifer V.Roth
Carmela Rubin
Rivka Saker
Atiya Saul
Uri Scharf
Roy Segev
Tova Segol
Rami Shalmor
Janet Shatz-Snyder
James Snyder
Sari Srulovitch
Frida Steinberger
Dr. David Tadmor
Kobi Tadmor
Orna Tamir-Schestowitz
Prof. David Tartakover
Orna Wertheim Barnea
Daniella Wexler
Benedicte Zakine
Ofer Zinger
Senate Representatives
Prof. Ory Bartal
Prof. Miki Kratsman
Ora Lev
Prof. Rutu Modan
Chen Shapira
Accountant's Office
Breitman Almagor
Legal Advisor
Tal, Kadari, Shamir & Co. Low Office
Internal Auditor
PA. Batia Kotzobay
Photography
Introduction to Visual Culture
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
To view this information page click here
Printing
Intermediate Level Reading Comprehension in English
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
Pagination