Sa'ar holds a BA in Architecture from Bezalel, who graduated with honors and a Master's degree in Urban Design.

He is the founder of an architectural firm called SGLarchitecture.

The firm SGLarchitecture was founded by Sa'ar in 2014 and since then has been involved in projects ranging from villas, residential, Tama 38, public buildings, commerce and offices and specializes in urban planning and urban renewal.

The firm aims to initiate a new perspective and ways of looking at the space in which we live.

Sa'ar is the head of the interior design program in Bezalel and a lecturer at the academy's Architecture Department for many years.

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Erez Golani Solomon is currently a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the Architecture Department and the Graduate Program in Urban Design of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2006, and he is since involved in teaching and research projects in Japan, at the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, the Graduate Program of Global Studies of Sophia University, as well as Waseda University. His research work encompasses a range of issues concerning the contemporary city, and the ramifications of architectural developments under contemporary cultures and politics. Erez practices architecture as partner at the Tokyo based firm Front-Office. In 2020 and 2021 he held a Senior Research Fellow position at the Azrieli Architecture Archive of Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Architect, Town Planner and Conservation Consultant. The head of the conservation unit, and a senior lecturer -at the Department of Architecture Bezalel. Between his works :Policy and conservation management for Jerusalem municipality, preservation of Zichron Yakov historic center ,Planning policy for Allenby street in Tel Aviv and the visitors center of Masada.

Shmuel is a founding member of  Bimkom-"Planners for Planning Rights", Graduated the Technion in Haifa (1978) and studied his Msc at the LSE in London (2006), and finished his PHD (2024) at the Ben Gurion University o, on the subject of: The "Wandering Archive" in Contested Heritage Sites" ,focusing on heritage and conservation of Palestinian towns inside Israel, the test case of Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa.

Selected Publications:
-“New Jaffa - Planning Modernity During the Mandate Period Between Henry Kendall and Ali Masoud.” Zmanim 143. (In Hebrew), 2020
-“Urban Planning of Jaffa”, More Than Bauhaus ,The Ar,2chitecture of the White City of Tel Aviv ,AADR,2019
-“Invisible Preservation: On the Relations between Conservation, Destruction and Erasure.” The Israeli Pavilion Catalogue, Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2008
-“Lubya in Lavie  Forest: Conservation of the Palestinian Built Heritage in Israel.”
-“Remembering, Forgetting and the Construction of Space Yacobi and  Fenster ed. Van Leer, (In Hebrew), 2011
-“Conservation and Oblivion.” Block no 04- Temporal Cities, p 33-36 (In Hebrew), 2007
-“The Politics of roads in Jerusalem” in: 'City of collision - Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism', Edited by: Rieniets Tim and Misselwitz Philip, p. 176-185, 2006

Ariel Handel is an interdisciplinary researcher. Teaches political theory and urbanism at Bezalel, Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University. He is the director of the Lexicon for Political Theory project and co-editor of Mafteakh-Muftah: Lexical Review of Political Thought. Ariel has published numerous journal papers and book chapters on issues of space, politics, power and violence. He is the editor-in-chief of The Political Lexicon of the Social Protest (Hakibutz Hameuchad, 2012), and co-editor of Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements (Indiana University Press, 2017).