Notable Alumni of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design [Sorted List]

1. Nurit Yarden

1959-. (aged 67)

photographer

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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2. Joram Rozov

1938-. (aged 88)

illustrator painter

Joram Rozov is an Israeli artist. He was a professor of art at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

3. Alona Rodeh

1979-. (aged 47)

video artist scenographer artist

Alona Rodeh is a multimedia artist whose work combines sculpture, video, immersive installations and photography.

4. Elyasaf Kowner

1970-. (aged 56)

painter video artist

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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5. Daphna Greenstein

1952-. (aged 74)

architect

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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6. Ido Noy

1979-. (aged 47)

historian author curator jewelry designer

Dr. Ido Noy is a designer, curator and historian of jewelry and fashion, Jewish art, folklore, popular art and ephemera.

7. Ahmad Canaan

1965-. (aged 61)

visual artist painter sculptor curator

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...

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8. Sari Srulovitch

1964-. (aged 62)

university teacher goldsmith designer

Sari Srulovitch is an Israeli artist and silversmith.

9. Karam Natour

1992-. (aged 34)

visual artist

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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10. Shaul Shats

1944-. (aged 82)

painter teacher writer

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...

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11. Ophrah Shemesh

1952-. (aged 74)

painter actor

Ophrah Shemesh is an American artist, best known for her intense, existentially themed oil and tempera paintings of women and men.

12. Gaston Zvi Ickowicz

1974-. (aged 52)

photographer

Gastón Zvi Ickowicz is an Israeli visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv.

13. Emanuel Hatzofe

1928-2019 (aged 91)

sculptor

Emanuel Hatzofe was an Israeli sculptor.

14. Raphie Etgar

1947-. (aged 79)

graphic designer curator poster artist

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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15. Rina Ben-Menahem

1935-2004 (aged 69)

painter jeweler writer

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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16. Serge Spitzer

1951-2012 (aged 61)

video artist illustrator sculptor installation artist photographer

Serge Spitzer was a Romanian-born American artist, known for his site-specific installations, sculpture, photographs and video.

17. Ayelet Carmi

1967-. (aged 59)

painter

Ayelet Carmi is an Israeli painter and installation artist.

18. Motti Mizrachi

1946-. (aged 80)

performance artist multimedia artist sculptor installation artist visual artist

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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19. Gilad Efrat

1969-. (aged 57)

painter

Gilad Efrat is a contemporary Israeli painter and a professor at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel.

20. Ohad Milstein

1973-. (aged 53)

film director screenwriter

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...

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21. Zvi Goldstein

1947-. (aged 79)

visual artist

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.

22. David Adika

1970-. (aged 56)

photographer teacher

David Adika is an Israeli photographer and educator.

23. Marek Yanai

1946-. (aged 80)

painter

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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24. Shmuel Levi

1884-1966 (aged 82)

painter

Shmuel Levi was an Israeli painter.

25. Ezri Tarazi

1962-. (aged 64)

designer

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...

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26. Michael Gitlin

1943-. (aged 83)

painter sculptor printmaker university teacher

Michael Gitlin is a contemporary sculptor.

27. Jumana Emil Abboud

1971-. (aged 55)

artist

Jumana Emil Abboud is a Palestinian artist living and working in Jerusalem.

28. Dina Merhav

1936-2022 (aged 86)

sculptor

Dina Merhav was a Yugoslav-born Israeli sculptor.

29. Eran Neuman

1968-. (aged 58)

architect professor

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...

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30. Adi Stern

1966-. (aged 60)

graphic designer designer graphic artist type designer

Adi Stern is an Israeli graphic designer, type designer, and the President of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

31. Maya Zack

1976-. (aged 50)

artist

Maya Zack is an artist-filmmaker who creates video art and installations.

32. Doron Gazit

1955-. (aged 71)

contemporary artist

Doron Gazit is an Israeli environmental artist, activist and industrial designer recognized for his large-scale outdoor environmental art installations.

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33. Yehezkel Streichman

1906-1993 (aged 87)

painter

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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34. Tova Berlinski

1915-2022 (aged 107)

painter

Tova Berlinski was a Polish-born Israeli painter who was considered to be a doyenne of the painting community in Jerusalem.

35. Dor Guez

2002-2006 (aged 4)

photographer

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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36. Itshak Holtz

1925-2018 (aged 93)

graphic designer painter

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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37. Gideon Amichay

1963-. (aged 63)

writer

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...

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38. Uri Gershuni

1970-. (aged 56)

photographer

Uri Gershuni is an Israeli photographer and educator.

39. Yoni Goodman

1976-. (aged 50)

graphic designer animation director illustrator animator

Yoni Goodman is an Israeli animator.

40. Ya'ackov Ben-Dov

1882-1968 (aged 86)

photographer film director

Yaacov Ben-Dov was an Israeli photographer and a pioneer of Jewish cinematography in Palestine.

41. Hedva Harechavi

1941-2025 (aged 84)

painter poet writer

Hedva Harekhavi was an Israeli poet and visual artist.

42. Admiel Kosman

1957-. (aged 69)

poet

Admiel Kosman is an Israeli poet and professor of Talmud.

43. Ruth Schloss

1922-2013 (aged 91)

illustrator painter

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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44. Jacob Pins

1917-2005 (aged 88)

university teacher painter art collector artist graphic artist

Jacob Otto Pins was a German-born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector, particularly of Japanese prints and paintings.

45. Ezra Orion

1934-2015 (aged 81)

sculptor poet educator

Ezra Orion was an Israeli sculptor.

46. David Polonsky

1973-. (aged 53)

illustrator visual artist

David Polonsky is an Israeli book illustrator and artistic film director.

47. Dede

1990-. (aged 36)

graffiti artist artist

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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48. Dov Karmi

1905-1962 (aged 57)

architect

Dov Karmi was an architect of Mandatory Palestine and Israel.

49. Zadok Ben David

1949-. (aged 77)

painter sculptor

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...

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50. Naftali Bezem

1924-2018 (aged 94)

painter illustrator lithographer sculptor pedagogue

Naftali Wahba Bezem was an Israeli painter, muralist and sculptor.

51. Nir Hod

1970-. (aged 56)

painter sculptor

Nir Hod is an Israeli visual artist, based in New York. He works in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and video art.

52. Avigdor Stematsky

1908-1989 (aged 81)

painter

Avigdor Stematsky was a Russian-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.

53. Pinchas Cohen Gan

1942-. (aged 84)

painter sculptor university teacher draftsperson

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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54. Yehudit Sasportas

1969-. (aged 57)

painter sculptor artist draftsperson installation artist

Yehudit Sasportas is an Israeli artist. She is active in Israel and Germany.

55. Moti Bodek

1961-. (aged 65)

architect

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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56. David Gerstein

1944-. (aged 82)

painter sculptor university teacher photographer

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...

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57. Moshe Castel

1909-1992 (aged 83)

painter

Moshe Castel was an Israeli painter.

58. David Tartakover

1944-2025 (aged 81)

designer graphic designer graphic artist

David Tartakover was an Israeli graphic designer and political activist.

59. Netiva Ben-Yehuda

1928-2011 (aged 83)

writer lexicographer broadcaster linguist

Netiva Ben Yehuda was an Israeli author, editor and media personality. She was a commander in the pre-state Jewish underground Palmach.

60. Baruch Agadati

1895-1976 (aged 81)

film director ballet dancer painter film producer choreographer

Baruch Agadati was a Romanian-born Israeli classical ballet dancer, choreographer, painter, and film producer and director.

61. Uri Fink

1963-. (aged 63)

illustrator comics artist

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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62. Anat Hoffman

1954-. (aged 72)

women's rights activist activist executive director

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",...

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63. Dan Reisinger

1934-2019 (aged 85)

painter postage stamp designer designer visual artist illustrator

Dan Reisinger was an Israeli graphic designer and artist.

64. Avigdor Arikha

1929-2010 (aged 81)

painter graphic artist printmaker art historian

Avigdor Arikha was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.

65. Sliman Mansour

1947-. (aged 79)

writer painter

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...

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66. Yael Bartana

1970-. (aged 56)

film director video artist film screenwriter installation artist television producer

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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67. Michal Rovner

1957-. (aged 69)

sculptor painter photojournalist installation artist video artist

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...

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68. Micha Ullman

1939-. (aged 87)

conceptual artist printmaker sculptor university teacher visual artist

Micha Ullman is an Israeli sculptor and professor of art.

69. Talya Lavie

1978-. (aged 48)

screenwriter writer film director

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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70. Beverly Barkat

1966-. (aged 60)

painter

Beverly Barkat is an Israeli visual artist.

71. Noma Bar

1973-. (aged 53)

animation director designer visual artist illustrator graphic artist

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...

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72. Rutu Modan

1966-. (aged 60)

writer comics artist artist illustrator

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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73. Levin Kipnis

1890-1990 (aged 100)

writer children's writer poet university teacher

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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74. Vania Heymann

1986-. (aged 40)

film director

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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75. Sigalit Landau

1969-. (aged 57)

sculptor performance artist installation artist plastic artist video artist

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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76. Samuel Bak

1933-. (aged 93)

stage painter painter engraver

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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77. Yaron London

1940-. (aged 86)

actor opinion journalist songwriter musician journalist

Yaron London is an Israeli media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter.

78. Ron Arad

1951-. (aged 75)

architect interior architect university teacher designer furniture designer

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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79. Noam Murro

1961-. (aged 65)

film producer director film director

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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80. Adi Altschuler

1986-. (aged 40)

pedagogue

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...

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81. Nachum Gutman

1898-1980 (aged 82)

painter writer children's writer sculptor illustrator

Nachum Gutman was a Moldovan-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author.

82. Aliza Olmert

1946-. (aged 80)

painter writer social worker sculptor activist

Aliza Olmert is an Israeli artist, photographer, author, and social worker. She is married to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

83. Susanne Bier

1960-. (aged 66)

film producer screenwriter film director

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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84. Yaacov Agam

1928-. (aged 98)

serigrapher painter sculptor jewelry designer experimental artist

Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist widely known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.

85. Elinor Carucci

1971-. (aged 55)

photographer

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....

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