85 Notable alumni of
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
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The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is 957th in the world, 205th 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 producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Susanne Bier is a Danish filmmaker. She is best known for her feature films Brothers (2004), After the Wedding (2006), In a Better World (2010), and Bird Box (2018), and the TV miniseries The Night Manager (2016) on AMC, The Undoing (2020) on HBO, and The First Lady (2022) on Showtime. Bier is the first female director to win a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a European Film Award, collectively.
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Yaacov Agam
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- painterserigrapherexperimental artistjewelry designersculptor
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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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Ron Arad
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1971-1973
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- designerjewelry designeruniversity teacherarchitect
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Ron Arad, is a British-Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architectural designer.
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Yaron London
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- actortelevision presenterjournalistmusiciansongwriter
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Yaron London is an Israeli media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter.
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Noam Murro
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- film producerfilm directordirector
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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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- children's writerwriterpaintermosaicistillustrator
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Nachum Gutman was a Moldovan-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author.
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Reuven Rubin
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1912-1912
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- painterdiplomat
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Reuven Rubin was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania.
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Levin Kipnis
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- poetchildren's writerwriteruniversity 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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Aliza Olmert
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- writerpainteractivistsculptorsocial worker
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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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Sigalit Landau
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- performance artistphotographerinstallation artistsculptorvideo artist
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Sigalit Landau is an Israeli sculptor, video and installation artist.
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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, and Bob Dylan. His music videos were nominated for two 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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Noma Bar
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- graphic designerdesignervisual artistgraphic artistillustrator
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Noma Bar is a graphic designer, illustrator and artist, based in London. 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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Samuel Bak
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- painter
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Samuel Bak is a Jewish Lithuanian-American 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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Rutu Modan
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- comics artistwriterillustratorartist
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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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- painterart historianprintmaker
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Avigdor Arikha was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.
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Michal Rovner
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1981-1985
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- photojournalistpaintersculptorfilmmakervisual 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).
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Yitzhak Danziger
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- landscape architectsculptorpedagogue
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Yitzhak Danziger was an Israeli sculptor. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the "Ofakim Hadashim" (New Horizons) group.
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Yael Bartana
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- artistscreenwriterphotographermultimedia 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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Sliman Mansour
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- painterwriter
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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 costumes 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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Micha Ullman
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1960-1964
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- university teacherprintmakersculptorpainterconceptual 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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- film directorwriterscreenwriter
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Talya Lavie is an Israeli filmmaker best known 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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Baruch Agadati
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- painterballet dancerfilm directorchoreographerfilm producer
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Baruch Agadati was a Russian Empire-born Israeli classical ballet dancer, choreographer, painter, and film producer and director.
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Anat Hoffman
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- women's rights activistexecutive directoractivist
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Anat Hoffman is an Israeli activist and serves as 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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Uri Fink
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- illustrator
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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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Netiva Ben-Yehuda
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- lexicographerwriterbroadcasterlinguist
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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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Dan Reisinger
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- designerpainterpostage stamp designergraphic artistillustrator
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Dan Reisinger was an Israeli graphic designer and artist.
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Elinor Carucci
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- photographer
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Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-American photographer and educator, living in New York City, noted for her intimate porayals of her family's lives. She has published four monographs; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013) and Midlife (2019). She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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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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David Tartakover
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- graphic designerdesignergraphic artist
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David Tartakover is an Israeli graphic designer, political activist, artist and design educator.
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Pinchas Cohen Gan
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- sculptorpainterdraweruniversity teacher
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Pinchas Cohen Gan is a Moroccan 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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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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- sculptorpainterphotographeruniversity teacher
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David Gerstein (Hebrew: דוד (דודו) גרשטיין) (born 14 November 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 a unique and iconic cutout images, free standing in space, without the standard and traditional square frame.
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Dede
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- artistgraffiti artist
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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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David Polonsky
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- visual artistillustrator
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David Polonsky is an Israeli book illustrator and artistic film director.
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Zadok Ben-David
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- sculptorpainter
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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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Yehudit Sasportas
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- painterinstallation artistdrawerartistsculptor
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Yehudit Sasportas is an Israeli artist. She is active in Israel and Germany. In 1997 she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachman Scholarship for her work and in 1999 the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation prize.
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Dov Karmi
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- architect
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Dov Karmi was an architect of Mandate Palestine and Israel.
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Nir Hod
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- sculptorpainter
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Nir Hod is an Israeli artist based in New York.
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Naftali Bezem
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- sculptorpainterpedagogueillustrator
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Naftali Wahba Bezem was an Israeli painter, muralist and sculptor.
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Avigdor Stematsky
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- painter
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Avigdor Stematsky was a Russian Empire-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.
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Hedva Harechavi
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- writerpoet
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Hedva Harekhavi, Israeli poet and artist, was born in 1941 in Kibbutz Degania Bet, one of the oldest kibbutzim in Israel. She had one child, Elisha, who died at a young age. She has lived most of her life in Jerusalem.
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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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Jacob Pins
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- painteruniversity teachergraphic artistartistart collector
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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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Ruth Schloss
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- painterillustrator
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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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Ezra Orion
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- sculptoreducatorpoet
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Ezra Orion was an Israeli sculptor.
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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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Motti Mizrachi
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- multimedia artistperformance artistvisual artistinstallation artistsculptor
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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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Ya'ackov Ben-Dov
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- film directorphotographer
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Yaacov Ben-Dov was an Israeli photographer and a pioneer of Jewish cinematography in Palestine.
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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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Itshak Holtz
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- paintergraphic designer
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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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Dor Guez Munayer
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Israel - Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 2002-2006
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- artist
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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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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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Yoni Goodman
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- 1976-.. (age 48)
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 2002
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- animation directorgraphic designeranimatorillustrator
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Yoni Goodman is an Israeli animator.
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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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Uri Gershuni
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- photographer
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Uri Gershuni is an Israeli photographer and educator.
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Eran Neuman
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- professorarchitect
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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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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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Adi Stern
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- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1992
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- graphic artistdesignergraphic designertype 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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Zvi Goldstein
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- visual artist
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Zvi Goldstein is an Israeli visual artist living in Jerusalem.
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Doron Gazit
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- 1955-.. (age 69)
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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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David Adika
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1993-1997
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- teacherphotographer
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David Adika is an Israeli photographer and educator.
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Michael Gitlin
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- sculptorpainteruniversity teacherprintmaker
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Michael Gitlin is a contemporary sculptor.
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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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Ohad Milstein
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- 1973-.. (age 51)
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- screenwriterfilm director
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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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Emanuel Hatzofe
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- sculptor
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Emanuel Hatzofe was an Israeli sculptor.
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Serge Spitzer
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1972-1974
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- installation artistartistsculptorphotographerillustrator
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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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Raphie Etgar
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1965-1972
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- graphic designerposter artistcurator
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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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Ayelet Carmi
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- painter
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Ayelet Carmi, is an Israeli painter and installation artist.
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Shaul Shats
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1965-1966
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- painterwriterteacher
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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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Rina Ben-Menahem
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- painterwriterjeweler
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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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Gilad Efrat
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- painter
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Gilad Efrat is a leading contemporary Israeli painter and a professor at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel.
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Ophrah Shemesh
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- 1952-.. (age 72)
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- actorpainter
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Ophrah Shemesh is an Israeli-American artist, best known for her intense, existentially themed oil and tempera paintings of women and men.
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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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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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Joram Rozov
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- painterillustrator
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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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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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Sari Srulovitch
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
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- goldsmithuniversity teacherdesigner
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Sari Srulovitch is an Israeli artist and silversmith.
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Ahmad Canaan
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1985-1989
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- paintersculptorcurator
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Ahmad Canaan is a painter and sculptor.
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Elyasaf Kowner
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- painter
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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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Alona Rodeh
- Enrolled in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- Studied in 1999-2003
- Studied in 2008-2009
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- television producerartist
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Alona Rodeh is a multimedia artist whose work combines sculpture, video, immersive installations and photography.
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Daphna Greenstein
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- 1952-.. (age 72)
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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
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- historianjewelry designercurator
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Dr. Ido Noy is a curator and historian of Jewish art and history, folklore, popular art and ephemera.
