Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is a public art and design school in Jerusalem with about 1,500 students ( as of 2008).

History

The Academy was founded by Boris Schatz, a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Arts, 1906 Bezalel Arts and Crafts School in the then Ottoman Jerusalem. Until 1969 it operated under the name Bezalel School for Arts & Crafts. The academy's name refers to the Old Testament Bezalel, which according to Ex 31.1 ff EU and 35,30 ff EU the divine order for the construction of the Tabernacle was (as it were the first biblical architect and designer ).

The Bezalel Academy is now the largest art and design college in the Middle East.

Since 1986, most of the faculties on Mount Scopus are housed above the Hebrew University.

The Academy offers training in the following degree programs: Fine Art, Visual Communication, Photography, Industrial Design, jewelry design, architecture, ceramics and glass, animation, film, art history and theory. It offers various courses in master's degree programs on how the Master 's Program in Fine Arts in collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.