85 Notable alumni of
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
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The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is 896th in the world, 186th in Asia, and 7th in Israel by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 85 notable alumni from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Susanne Bier
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- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
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Susanne Bier is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for In a Better World) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for directing The Night Manager).
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Yaacov Agam
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- serigrapherpaintersculptorjewelry designerexperimental artist
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Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist widely known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.
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Yaron London
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- actoropinion journalistsongwritermusicianjournalist
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Yaron London is an Israeli media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter.
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Ron Arad
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1971-1973
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- architectinterior architectuniversity teacherdesignerfurniture designer
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Ron Arad is a British-Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architectural designer. He is best known for his furniture designs, including the postmodern chair Rover.
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Noam Murro
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- film producerdirectorfilm director
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Noam Murro is an Israeli film director and film producer. He is best known for directing the films Smart People, 300: Rise of an Empire, and the BBC miniseries Watership Down.
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Adi Altschuler
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- pedagogue
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Adi Altschuler is an educator and a social entrepreneur. She is the founder of the "Krembo Wings" youth movement – Israel's "first movement for youths with and without special needs". She is the founder of "Memories@Home", an alternative gathering on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial day). She formerly led "Google for education, Israel" where she would advise teachers on the use of IT. With the goal of transforming Israel's education system, Adi left Google to found "Inclu-Inclusive Schools". Inclu is a nonprofit that promotes inclusive education in Israel through a network of public inclusive schools.
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Nachum Gutman
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- painterwriterchildren's writersculptorillustrator
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Nachum Gutman was a Moldovan-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author.
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Aliza Olmert
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- painterwritersocial workersculptoractivist
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Aliza Olmert is an Israeli artist, photographer, author, and social worker. She is married to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.
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Levin Kipnis
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- writerchildren's writerpoetuniversity teacher
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Levin Kipnis, or was born 1890, was an Israeli children's author and poet who wrote mainly in Hebrew and Yiddish. He won the Israel Prize in 1978.
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Vania Heymann
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- film director
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Vania Heymann is an Israeli artist and film director. His work includes music videos for artists such as Coldplay, Dua Lipa, DJ Snake, Selena Gomez, Sabrina Carpenter, and Bob Dylan. His music videos were nominated for three Grammys in the Best Music Video category, and multiple VMA awards. Heymann also directs commercials, including spots for Apple, Nike and the Toyota.
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Sigalit Landau
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- sculptorperformance artistinstallation artistplastic artistvideo artist
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Sigalit Ethel Landau is an Israeli multi-disciplinary artist known for her work in drawing, sculpture, video and performance art, video and installation art. Her works are featured in a number of institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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Samuel Bak
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- stage painterpainterengraver
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Samuel Bak is an American-Jewish painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States.
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Noma Bar
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- animation directordesignervisual artistillustratorgraphic artist
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Noma Bar is a graphic designer, illustrator and artist. Bar's work has been described as "deceptively simple", featuring flat colours, minimal detail and negative space to create images that often carry double meanings that are not immediately apparent. Bar himself outlines his approach as avoiding unnecessary detail or decoration that might detract from an image's message, instead aiming for 'maximum communication with minimal elements.'
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Rutu Modan
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- writercomics artistartistillustrator
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Rutu Modan is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist. She is co-founder of the Israeli comics group Actus Tragicus and published the graphic novels Exit Wounds (2007) and The Property (2013).
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Avigdor Arikha
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- paintergraphic artistprintmakerart historian
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Avigdor Arikha was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.
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Sliman Mansour
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- writerpainter
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Sliman Mansour is a Palestinian painter, sculptor, author and cartoonist, considered a leading figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of intifada whose work captures the cultural concept of sumud. His paintings which have been exhibited around the world reflect the Palestinian struggle and include images of women in Palestinian traditional clothing and Levantine tree-filled landscapes. In 1987, he was part of the New Visions collective that boycotted Israeli supplies and instead used local natural Palestinian materials.
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Yael Bartana
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- film directorvideo artistfilm screenwriterinstallation artisttelevision producer
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Yael Bartana is an Israeli artist, filmmaker and photographer, whose past works have encompassed multiple mediums, including photography, film, video, sound, and installation. Many of her pieces feature political or feminist themes.
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Michal Rovner
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1981-1985
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- sculptorpainterphotojournalistinstallation artistvideo artist
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Michal Rovner, also known as Michal Rovner Hammer, is an Israeli contemporary artist, she is known for her video, photo, and cinema artwork. Rovner is internationally known with exhibitions at major museums, including the Louvre (2011) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2002). She is the recipient of the Israel Prize for the year 2023 in the field of plastic arts.
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Micha Ullman
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1960-1964
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- conceptual artistprintmakersculptoruniversity teachervisual artist
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Micha Ullman is an Israeli sculptor and professor of art.
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Talya Lavie
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- screenwriterwriterfilm director
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Talya Lavie is an Israeli film and television director and screenwriter. Her accolades include two Ophir Awards, for her 2014 debut feature, Zero Motivation.
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Beverly Barkat
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- painter
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Beverly Barkat is an Israeli visual artist.
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David Tartakover
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- designergraphic designergraphic artist
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David Tartakover was an Israeli graphic designer and political activist.
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Netiva Ben-Yehuda
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- writerlexicographerbroadcasterlinguist
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Netiva Ben Yehuda was an Israeli author, editor and media personality. She was a commander in the pre-state Jewish underground Palmach.
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Baruch Agadati
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- film directorballet dancerpainterfilm producerchoreographer
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Baruch Agadati was a Romanian-born Israeli classical ballet dancer, choreographer, painter, and film producer and director.
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Uri Fink
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- illustratorcomics artist
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Uri Fink is an Israeli comic book artist and writer, and creator of the comics series Zbeng!. He is considered one of Israel's leading comic book artists.
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Anat Hoffman
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- women's rights activistactivistexecutive director
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Anat Hoffman is an Israeli activist and the former executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center, also known as IRAC. She is the director and founding member of Nashot HaKotel, also known as Women of the Wall. Hoffman is a former member of the Jerusalem City Council. In 2013, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz named her "Person of the Year", noting the award reflected "the prominence that she has achieved across the Jewish world over the past 12 months". The Jerusalem Post listed her fifth, among its list of 50 Most Influential Jews, for forcefully and successfully bringing the issue of women's rights at the Kotel to the "forefront of the consciousness of world Jewry".
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Dan Reisinger
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- painterpostage stamp designerdesignervisual artistillustrator
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Dan Reisinger was an Israeli graphic designer and artist.
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Moshe Castel
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1922-1925
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- painter
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Moshe Castel was an Israeli painter.
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Pinchas Cohen Gan
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- paintersculptoruniversity teacherdraftsperson
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Pinchas Cohen Gan is a Moroccan-Israeli painter and mixed-media artist. He was awarded the Sandberg Prize (1979), the Culture and Sport Ministry's prize for his life's work (2005), and the Israel Prize in Art (2008).
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Elinor Carucci
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- photographer
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Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-born American photographer and educator, based in New York City, noted for her intimate portrayals of her family's lives, emotions, relationships, and identity. She has published five monographs; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013, Midlife (2019) and The Collars of RBG (2023). She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Carucci's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Jewish Museum and Brooklyn Museum in New York, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Harwood Museum of Art in New Mexico.
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Yehudit Sasportas
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- paintersculptorartistdraftspersoninstallation artist
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Yehudit Sasportas is an Israeli artist. She is active in Israel and Germany.
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Moti Bodek
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- architect
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Moti Bodek is an Israeli architect. He is the CEO of Bodek Architects based in Tel Aviv and a Professor of Architecture at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem & at Tel Aviv University.
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David Gerstein
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- paintersculptoruniversity teacherphotographer
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David Gerstein (Hebrew: דוד (דודו) גרשטיין; born November 14, 1944) is an Israeli painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. He began as a figurative painter and was recipient of the Israel Museum Prize for illustration. At the end of the 1970s, he wished to expand the limits of two-dimensional painting, into painting in three dimensions. He began cutting out the main subjects of each painting and, to cancel the background, creating unique and iconic cutout images, free-standing in space, without the standard and traditional square frame.
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David Polonsky
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- illustratorvisual artist
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David Polonsky is an Israeli book illustrator and artistic film director.
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Dede
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- graffiti artistartist
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Dede is the art name of an Israeli graffiti artist who began displaying works on the streets of Tel Aviv in 2006. Also known as Dede Bandaid, Dede’s work is well known for his widespread use of images of band-aids.
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Dov Karmi
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- architect
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Dov Karmi was an architect of Mandatory Palestine and Israel.
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Zadok Ben David
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- paintersculptor
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Zadok Ben-David is an Israeli artist working in London. He was born in Beihan, Yemen; his family immigrated to Israel when he was an infant. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design from 1971 to 1973. He continued his studies at the University of Reading and Saint Martin's School of Art, where he studied sculpture and later taught, from 1977 to 1982.
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Naftali Bezem
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- painterillustratorlithographersculptorpedagogue
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Naftali Wahba Bezem was an Israeli painter, muralist and sculptor.
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Nir Hod
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- paintersculptor
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Nir Hod is an Israeli visual artist, based in New York. He works in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and video art.
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Avigdor Stematsky
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- painter
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Avigdor Stematsky was a Russian-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.
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Hedva Harechavi
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- painterpoetwriter
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Hedva Harekhavi was an Israeli poet and visual artist.
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Admiel Kosman
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- poet
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Admiel Kosman is an Israeli poet and professor of Talmud.
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Ruth Schloss
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- illustratorpainter
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Ruth Schloss was an Israeli painter and illustrator. Major themes in her work were Arabs, transition camps, children and women at eye-level. She expressed an egalitarian, socialist view via realism in her painting and drawing.
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Jacob Pins
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- university teacherpainterart collectorartistgraphic artist
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Jacob Otto Pins was a German-born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector, particularly of Japanese prints and paintings.
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Ezra Orion
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- sculptorpoeteducator
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Ezra Orion was an Israeli sculptor.
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Ya'ackov Ben-Dov
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- photographerfilm director
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Yaacov Ben-Dov was an Israeli photographer and a pioneer of Jewish cinematography in Palestine.
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Yehezkel Streichman
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- painter
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Yehezkel Streichman was an Israeli painter. He is considered a pioneer of Israeli modernist painting. Among the awards that he won were the Dizengoff Prize and the Israel Prize.
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Tova Berlinski
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- painter
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Tova Berlinski was a Polish-born Israeli painter who was considered to be a doyenne of the painting community in Jerusalem.
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Dor Guez
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Israel - Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 2002-2006
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- photographer
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Dor Guez Munayer is a Jerusalemite artist of Christian Palestinian and Tunisian Jewish origin, founder of The Christian Palestinian Archive, and the director of SeaPort Residency.
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Itshak Holtz
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- graphic designerpainter
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Itshak Jack Holtz was a Polish-born and an Israeli and American Orthodox Jewish painter, who is best known for his paintings and drawings that depict traditional scenes of Jewish life.
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Gideon Amichay
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- writer
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Gideon Amichay is an Israeli advertising executive, marketer, and author. He is the founder and chief creative officer of No, No, No, No, No, Yes, a creative boutique in New York and Tel Aviv. He also teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. From May 1994 to November 2011, he acted as the Chief Creative Officer & Joint Managing Partner at Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Uri Gershuni
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- photographer
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Uri Gershuni is an Israeli photographer and educator.
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Yoni Goodman
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- 1976-.. (age 50)
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 2002
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- graphic designeranimation directorillustratoranimator
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Yoni Goodman is an Israeli animator.
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Jumana Emil Abboud
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- artist
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Jumana Emil Abboud is a Palestinian artist living and working in Jerusalem.
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Dina Merhav
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- sculptor
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Dina Merhav was a Yugoslav-born Israeli sculptor.
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Eran Neuman
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- architectprofessor
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Eran Neuman is an Israeli architect and architectural historian. Currently, he is the dean of the Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University. Between 2010 and 2018, Neuman headed the Azrieli School of Architecture at TAU. He is the founder of the Azrieli Architectural Archive at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was a co-founder of the international research collaborative Open Source Architecture.
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Adi Stern
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- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1992
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- graphic designerdesignergraphic artisttype designer
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Adi Stern is an Israeli graphic designer, type designer, and the President of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
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Maya Zack
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- artist
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Maya Zack is an artist-filmmaker who creates video art and installations.
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Doron Gazit
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- 1955-.. (age 71)
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- contemporary artist
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Doron Gazit is an Israeli environmental artist, activist and industrial designer recognized for his large-scale outdoor environmental art installations.
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Ezri Tarazi
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- designer
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Prof. Ezri Tarazi Israeli industrial designer and educator (1986–90). Tarazi studied industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Subsequently, he was a coordinator of instructors' education for leadership in the Maritime Academy of the Israeli Navy. Early employment included serving as the project manager of industrial-design projects at Bezalel R&D in Jerusalem in 1990–96, and was active as a freelance designer in 1993–96. 1996–2004, he was the head of the Department of Industrial Design at the Bezalel Academy and, 2004–12, founded and chaired the Bezalel master's-degree program in industrial design.
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Michael Gitlin
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- paintersculptorprintmakeruniversity teacher
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Michael Gitlin is a contemporary sculptor.
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Ohad Milstein
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Ohad Milstein is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, photographer and video artist, located in Israel, Tel Aviv. His Films show the cinematic & artistic components within a narrative and its constructive-formalistic aspects. Milstein studied Cinema (BA) at Tel Aviv University from 1996 to 2000 and Photography & art (MFA) at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design from 2003 to 2005. He has a distinctive cinematic language combining art and documentary cinema. Milstein teaches cinema at the Screen-Based Arts department of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
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Zvi Goldstein
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- visual artist
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Zvi Goldstein is a Romanian-born Israeli visual artist and teacher. He lives in Jerusalem, and has taught at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
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David Adika
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1993-1997
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- photographerteacher
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David Adika is an Israeli photographer and educator.
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Marek Yanai
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- painter
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Marek Yanai is an Israeli figurative painter and senior lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. He paints in watercolor and oil. His work as a painter and a teacher has contributed greatly to the establishing and development of figurative expression in art, design and animation in Israel.
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Shmuel Levi
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- painter
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Shmuel Levi was an Israeli painter.
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Emanuel Hatzofe
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- sculptor
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Emanuel Hatzofe was an Israeli sculptor.
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Raphie Etgar
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1965-1972
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- graphic designercuratorposter artist
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Raphie Etgar is an Israeli artist and curator who has served as artistic Director of Museum on the Seam since its establishment in 2000 and until 2021.
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Rina Ben-Menahem
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- painterjewelerwriter
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Sara Rina Ben-Menahem was an Israeli writer, author of the first Hebrew language book to describe the homosexual and lesbian scene in Israel, "הדווקאים", published in 1960, and the first Hebrew lesbian novel, "הצלע", published in 1961.
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Serge Spitzer
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1972-1974
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- video artistillustratorsculptorinstallation artistphotographer
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Serge Spitzer was a Romanian-born American artist, known for his site-specific installations, sculpture, photographs and video.
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Ayelet Carmi
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- painter
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Ayelet Carmi is an Israeli painter and installation artist.
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Motti Mizrachi
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- performance artistmultimedia artistsculptorinstallation artistvisual artist
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Mordechai Mizrachi (Hebrew: מוטי מזרחי; born 1946) is an Israeli multimedia artist who creates politically engaged conceptual works that combine sculpture, video, photography, public art, and performance. Dough, Via Dolorosa (1973) and Healing (1980) marked the emergence of avant-garde Israeli performance and video art. Since the 1980s, he has created numerous site specific public sculptures.
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Gilad Efrat
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- painter
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Gilad Efrat is a contemporary Israeli painter and a professor at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel.
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Karam Natour
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- visual artist
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Karam Natour is a visual artist. Natour’s practice employs a variety of mediums, including video, digital drawing, and installation, although he considers video his ‘mother tongue’
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Shaul Shats
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1965-1966
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- painterteacherwriter
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Shaul Shats is an Israeli painter, printmaker and illustrator, born in 1944 in Kibbutz Sarid, Israel. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1965–66), the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (1967), and the Freie Akademie, The Hague (1967). Shats taught at the Bezalel Academy from 1978–82. He won the Israel Museum Prize for Illustration (1990), the Jerusalem Prize (1992), the Ben Yitzhak Prize for Illustration of Israeli Children's Books (1992), and the Ish-Shalom Prize.
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Ophrah Shemesh
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- 1952-.. (age 74)
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- painteractor
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Ophrah Shemesh is an American artist, best known for her intense, existentially themed oil and tempera paintings of women and men.
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Gaston Zvi Ickowicz
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- photographer
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Gastón Zvi Ickowicz is an Israeli visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv.
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Ahmad Canaan
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1985-1989
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- visual artistpaintersculptorcurator
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Ahmad Canaan is a Palestinian painter and sculptor who is among the most prolific of his generation. He is known for his unique visual style drawing on motifs from Islamic art and Middle Eastern cultures and mythology. As an artist born to the post Nakbah generation, his work deals with the various facets of Palestinian identity and the culture. Through portraits, landscapes, and sculptures, he has both represented the Palestinian identity and invented new mythologies that speak to their situation and society.
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Sari Srulovitch
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 62)
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
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- university teachergoldsmithdesigner
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Sari Srulovitch is an Israeli artist and silversmith.
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Nurit Yarden
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1982-1986
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- photographer
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Nurit Yarden is an Israeli art photographer, who lives and works in Tel Aviv. She won the Israel Ministry of Culture Prize for the Encouragement of Visual Arts in 2002.
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Joram Rozov
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- illustratorpainter
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Joram Rozov is an Israeli artist. He was a professor of art at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
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Alona Rodeh
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1999-2003
- Studied in 2008-2009
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- video artistscenographerartist
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Alona Rodeh is a multimedia artist whose work combines sculpture, video, immersive installations and photography.
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Elyasaf Kowner
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- paintervideo artist
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Elyasaf Kowner is an Israeli interdisciplinary artist who explores issues of abuse, loss, control and love for people. He has made over 30 poetic short films that were screened in festivals and museums internationally. Kowner was described as a "multidisciplinary who can convert anything to art, design, documentary or other creative gold."
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Daphna Greenstein
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- 1952-.. (age 74)
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- architect
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Daphna Greenstein is an Israeli architect and landscape architect. Greenstein professioned in various design and planning aspects: landscape architecture, environmental design, and architecture. She specialized in designing a wide range of projects in the public realm.
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Ido Noy
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 2002-2006
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- historianauthorcuratorjewelry designer
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Dr. Ido Noy is a designer, curator and historian of jewelry and fashion, Jewish art, folklore, popular art and ephemera.
