Bezalel academy

Bezalel Academy opens new int’l hub, honors leading cultural figures

Bezalel Academy inaugurated a new art wing and international hub for the Fine Arts, Visual Communication, Photography, and Screen-Based Arts departments.

Yakir Bezalel honorees (from right to left), Said Abu Shakra, Ohad Naharin, Batia Ofer, Idan Ofer, and Maira Kalman.
ANN ANTONOV.

Innovation and tradition heavily featured at Bezalel’s 2025 Graduate Exhibition

 Artist Sigal Hen with a piece from her "Silent Power" exhibition, June 2025.

New Tel Aviv art exhibition powerfully explores femininity and freedom

 ARTIST AVIVA GREEN visits the  Chagall Windows in the Abbell  Synagogue, where her soft  sculptures complement Chagall’s  art.

Behind the textiles at Hadassah’s Chagall-adorned synagogue - opinion


This week in Jewish history: Babylonians besiege Jerusalem, Zola publishes 'J’accuse'

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

 Babylonian forces destroy Jerusalem in this 19th-century painting by James Tissot.

Top 10 reasons to leave the house: January 3-11

Fun events to take part in throughout Israel in the coming week.

 THE SITKOVETSKY Trio.

Grapevine December 29, 2024: Why retire?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

PROTEA HILLS VOLUNTEERS.

Dystopian worlds and surreal animation await at AniNation Festival in Jerusalem

AniNation Festival brings top Israeli and global animated films to Jerusalem Cinematheque.

 ‘Flow’ will be among the films screened at the eighth AniNation Festival.

Creating in times of war: A look at the Bezalel Graduate Exhibition 2024

The contemporary traumatic setting of the Bezalel Graduate Exhibition 2024, emanated by the main exhibition on show, titled “Simultaneously: Creating in Times of War,” is a slap back to reality.

 A yoga Savasana pose in Gaza, as shown in the short film Emergency Routine.

How many electric Cherys designed by Bezalel students will be sold?

A rare collaboration between the Jerusalem Academy of Art and a car importer: illustrations proposed by visual communication students were printed on a Chery FX, to be sold at a public auction.


Bezalel industrial design students show off innovation

Students at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Art and Design's graduate exhibit show off their innovative final projects.

 DANIEL COHEN displays his futuristic racecar with magnetic levitation engines.

Bezalel Academy’s triumphant return to downtown Jerusalem

The oldest institution of higher learning in Israel, Bezalel is considered to be the country’s most prestigious art school, and it was originally located in the center of town.

 BEZALEL’S NEW Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Campus.

The faculty rooms of the future

Privat study and meeting cells, mobile work units and more: this is how an innovative designer sees the future of traditional faculty rooms in schools. 

 Einat Azulay Polon

Unique project brings together art students to solve health system challenges

The project involves students from Bezalel's art and design departments and combines several subjects taught at the academy.

Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba

Jerusalem Highlights January 27-February 2

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 BURAK KAYIHAN performs on stage.