Support Bezalel
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What to Support:
Bezalel’s Annual Fund Campaign
Empowering the future through art and design
Bezalel Academy’s new academic year has begun amid the challenges and consequences of the war. We reflect on the resilience we have maintained over the past two years—through war, trauma, antisemitism, boycotts, and societal upheaval—and state our belief that art and design must play a central role in shaping our future.
This is a time to restore hope, going beyond recovery. It is a time when art and design must provide direction to a more thoughtful, compassionate, and forward-looking reality for us all.
In this critical moment, we emerge more determined than ever to fulfil our mission: nurturing the next generation of leaders in art and design who share our values and will catalyse meaningful, relevant change.
To support our mission, we are launching our 2025-26 Annual Fund Campaign, building strength and relevance, and empowering Bezalel’s students to be engaged leaders and creative problem-solvers.
Every contribution strengthens the foundation that allows Bezalel to operate in this way:
- Providing financial, academic, and emotional support to our students so they can thrive.
- Maintaining world-class faculty and state-of-the-art equipment and facilities to enhance learning excellence.
- Strengthening Bezalel’s Jack, Joseph, Morton Mandel Campus as a central hub of change, dialogue, and impact.
We hope that you will join us and donate today to Bezalel. By donating, you join the legacy and excellence of Israel’s most prestigious academic institution for art and design, and you help educate the next generation of artists, designers, and architects emerging from Jerusalem.
Join this cultural action. Support our artists and designers in positively impacting the future.
More donation options are available above, under “How to Make a Donation”.
We are grateful for your help.
In October 2022, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem will welcome its students and faculty members to its new home in the heart of Jerusalem.
Bezalel’s extensive support network includes scholarships that embrace a wide-range of possibilities and populations: from tuition and housing, assistance and mentoring support for students with financial needs and learning disabilities, to discharged soldiers, new immigrants, Arabic-speaking students and students with special needs, among others.
For Information on student scholarship support options please contact: development@bezalel.ac.il
Bezalel is spearheading the exploration and development of the promising new field of art and design research, which applies singular strategies to the investigation of a wide range of challenging scientific, intellectual and social problems. This enables the Academy to produce innovative, useful and groundbreaking results while remaining both scholarly and imaginative.
Design thinking is an integral component of today’s technological revolution. This new reality is particularly critical in Israel, which is renowned for its innovative high-tech sector. Bezalel helps its students and faculty become involved in this pioneering convergence of art and technology, design and innovation, science and creativity, by introducing them to the requisite terminology and skill sets and mentoring them as they find their place in this expanding ecosystem. Their efforts focus on channeling research results into entrepreneurial enterprises and creating solutions that will enhance everyday life, leading the way in this exciting era of advances and innovation.
Bezalel believes that creating an outstanding professional infrastructure for continuous teaching development will produce a more meaningful learning and teaching experience for both students and teachers, particularly in the distinctive environment of an art and design academic educational institution. The Academy’s unique Teaching Center focuses on augmenting the abilities of Bezalel’s educators to maximize every student’s potential while examining the optimal methodology for teaching art and design. The Center’s continuing research is intended to improve data-driven teaching and to apply lessons from arts and design pedagogy to all fields of higher education.
Bezalel has nine departments that offer undergraduate degrees: Industrial Design; Ceramics and Glass Design; Visual Communication; Fine Art; Screen-Based Arts; Photography; Jewelry and Fashion Design; Architecture; and Visual and Material Culture. All departments would appreciate assistance in awarding Prizes for Excellence, Tuition Scholarships, support for Student Exchanges Abroad, grants for Young Graduates, the acquisition of equipment and materials and funding for workshops, seminars and exhibitions.
Please visit our BA department pages via the links above to learn more about each of our Undergraduate Departments
Bezalel has five graduate programs: Master in Fine Arts (M.F.A.); Master in Industrial Design; Master in Policy and Theory of the Arts; Master in Urban Design; and Master in Visual Communication. Their programmatic needs include underwriting for the Annual Graduates Exhibitions, Residencies; New Technology Integrations; and International Faculty Exchanges.
Please visit our Master's program pages via the links above to learn more about each of our Graduate Programs
Bezalel has always understood that its faculty and students can make a unique contribution to the world around them; that as artists and designers they can be agents of cultural innovation and examples of responsible citizenship in the public, private and non-profit sectors. For decades, the Academy’s faculty and students have embraced community involvement – creating social, educational and environmental programs for schoolchildren and teenagers, for people with disabilities and for the disadvantaged – throughout the city and country. Bezalel has added to these extensive efforts by expanding its academic agenda to include courses that marry these vital issues and challenges with practical programs and concrete outreach efforts.
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Through its collaborations with over 180 of the world’s best art schools and academic institutions – and a growing number of partnerships and relationships with galleries, institutes and multinational companies worldwide – Bezalel is recognized by its peers for the caliber of its curriculum, renowned guest lecturers, cooperative research projects and outstanding faculty exchange programs. Bezalel also offers an exceptionally extensive student exchange program, collaborating with over leading academic institutions in Asia, Europe, the US, South America and Australia.
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