Registration is now open for the undergraduate program at Bezalel for the academic year 2025–26 

Open day - Tuesday, 17.12.24, for the departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture*, Fine Arts, Screen-based Arts, Ceramics and Glass Design, Industrial Design, Jewelry and Fashion, Photography, Visual Communication and a theoretical degree (B.A.) in Visual and Material Culture 

Open day - Thursday, 19.12.14, School of Architecture (Architecture, Landscape Architecture*).

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Bezalel’s Undergraduate Program in Architecture embraces an integrated, multi-layered and multidisciplinary approach that serves as a platform for innovation and creativity in both research and practice. It aims to prepare its students to become architects who can function as highly skilled designers, planners, researchers, curators, choreographers and leaders at home and abroad. 

Most of all, it strives to provide its graduates with a broad humanistic education and a strong sense of social sensitivity, so they will become the designers of the future, acting to redefine the architect's role and responsibilities through political and social engagement. 

The broad-based curriculum emphasizes design research, originality, critical deliberation and active involvement in a wide range of related fields. The undergraduate program integrates theory and practice, research and design in different contexts and dimensions. It combines a variety of courses such as the history and theory of ideas and materials, with practical tools such as art and design, drawing, construction skills, technology studies and above all the comprehensive design studio.

Alongside with acquiring this requisite knowledge, students explore issues that have a profound impact on people’s lives – urban design, environmental and landscape design, new building technologies, housing and social equality, climate change and artificial intelligence. The Department serves as a forum for open and critical discussion that seeks to challenge and influence professional norms and public debate regarding the discipline's role in designing  the built and open space in Israel and around the world.

Registration is now open for the undergraduate program at Bezalel for the academic year 2025–26.

Open day - Tuesday, 17.12.24, for the departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture*, Fine Arts, Screen-based Arts, Ceramics and Glass Design, Industrial Design, Jewelry and Fashion, Photography, Visual Communication and a theoretical degree (B.A.) in Visual and Material Culture.

Details and registration

Visual communication is the most common form of art in our everyday lives. It is present in almost everything we see and almost everywhere we look – on bookshelves and billboards, television and computer screens, posters, magazines and smartphones. It is a  language that uses image, color, motion, sound, text, and matter to communicate messages, ideas, emotions and information through shape and form. It can educate, entertain, change the way we think and impact our behavior. 

At Bezalel, the curriculum is designed to lead students to rethink how they regard problems, how they analyze complex situations and produce innovative solutions using their integrated design and communication expertise. The program encourages creativity in storytelling and self expression that transcends boundaries, that explores and experiments, while constantly striving for excellence in all aspects and professional standards.

The Department trains designers to understand the pervasive influence of the discipline, how to approach each task from a critical and ethical perspective – and above all, how to use their talents and skills to make a positive influence in the world. In Israel and abroad, the Department’s graduates are leaders in the vast and varied world of this unique form of communication, transforming the visual landscape of our lives and our world.

Registration for the Graduate programs is closing >> 26.7

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This two-year program has the distinction of being the only graduate program in Israel dedicated to examining contemporary art, design and culture – doing so from the unique perspective of the humanities and social sciences. It combines an academic exploration of how these fields function with a hands-on approach to how they are evidencing themselves in Israel today. 

Within this framework, the program’s two specialized tracks – Curatorial Studies and Cultural Criticism – address the growing need for both theoretical discussion and professional training in disciplines that complement the art and design world: the management of institutions of art and culture; curatorial studies; museology; art criticism; the history of design; cultural and national policies. 

The Curatorial Studies track provides students with the knowledge and ability to challenge conventional visual displays and presentations in this ever-expanding field; the Cultural Criticism track is the only one in Israel that provides students with the necessary training in this unusual and demanding profession. The option of a thesis degree, which is necessary to pursue a Ph.D. degree, is available upon completion of all requirements. 

Specialists in these fields serve as bridges between the public, artists, designers and cultural innovators. They have the power to bring artwork closer to the community and play a vital role in the evolution of culture, the discourse surrounding it and the principles and procedures that guide leaders in the field. 

Graduates of the M.A. in Policy and Theory of Arts program enjoy meaningful positions in their chosen fields in Israel and abroad. Those who chose to complete the M.A. program with a thesis have continued their studies in PhD programs at major universities around the world.

Bezalel’s Art and Design Teaching Center

Informed by Bezalel’s unique teaching and learning needs and characteristics, the Academy’s Art and Design Teaching Center was planned to create a professional and continuous foundation for the development of teaching at the Academy. Much like art and design, the Center considers teaching to be a creative, dynamic, reflective and knowledge-based practice. The Center encourages the development of teaching and learning processes, while leading innovative initiatives within Bezalel and in collaboration with various Israeli and international academic institutions.

An independent team in the Bezalel ecosystem, the Center works closely with the Academy’s academic and administrative units with the belief that the formulation of sustainable teaching requires a holistic, multidisciplinary, creative and open approach. Through its members – who are themselves lecturers in Bezalel departments – the Center is involved in all aspects of teaching and learning in the Academy, systematically examining the challenges various academic units face and responding to emerging needs.

The Center works in three corresponding and complementary spheres:

• Teaching development – as a framework for the formulation of teaching tools, ideas and skill for lecturers
• Teaching management – as a framework for the professional development of academic directors in academic training, teaching and learning evaluation; curricula construction and evaluation; and academic leadership
• Education research – as a framework for the facilitation and support of teaching and learning research, allowing lecturers to systematically examine various teaching methods with the aim of developing new practices.

Bezalel is a learning community whose different partners – and primarily faculty members and students – engage in an ongoing exploration of pedagogies and in shaping diverse, varied and new learning experiences. The Center wishes to involve as many stakeholders as possible in the research and development of teaching and learning at the Academy and share the knowledge, tools and ideas formulated within it with as wide an audience as possible.

Dear Students,

We, the staff of the Dean of Students Office, are here personally for each and every student in order to facilitate meaningful learning and a safe environment for academic success.

We are available to you and invite each and every student to approach us at any time.

Shelly Hershko,

Dean of Students and the staff of the Dean’s Office

The Dean of Students Office is the main body in charge of supporting Bezalel’s students academically, personally, financially, socially and culturally. The staff of the Dean’s Office strives to enable every student to fulfill his or her greatest personal and academic potential, and is available and accessible to the variety of needs of the students.

The Dean’s Office works to create supportive, encouraging and diversified frameworks. It aspires to instill an empowering and inclusive academic and social atmosphere for groups from different cultural backgrounds and works to promote and develop interactions between the academia and the community, encouraging students to go beyond the Bezalel walls to work with diverse communities through ongoing projects and courses integrating social action. 

The Dean’s Office guides students from pre-admission through graduation, aiding them amongst other things to adjust to Academy life, assuring they will receive equal opportunities, minimizing dropouts, maximizing each student’s ability to fulfill their potential throughout the course of their studies and equipping them with tools to facilitate their future path following graduation.