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Bezalel graduate Noga Kamhaji and her Blue Argaz project about her brother, Dan Kamhaji, a reservist killed by a Hezbollah rocket in May 2024. (Courtesy)
September 27, 2025, 7:13 am
Sister of fallen soldier transforms IDF crates of his belongings into art installation
Noga Kamhaji took blue boxes filled with possessions of brother Dan, killed in Hezbollah drone attack, and returned by military after his death, and created a remembrance project
By Jessica Steinberg
Artist Avinadav Begin stands outside his Even Sapir workshop on September 21, 2025, contemplating a work in progress (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 25, 2025, 4:32 pm
Menachem Begin’s grandson pushes forward with art in solo show, during country’s painful ‘limbo’
Focusing on walls — and tunnels — Avinadav Begin prepares to close solo exhibition, laments gaping differences between his grandfather’s Likud and the current Netanyahu-led party
By Jessica Steinberg
Gil Ofer, (r), Lee Ofer, Danielle Ofer (l) and Idan Ofer (far left), at the opening of the new Bezalel art wing on July 29, 2025 (Rotem Rosman Yefet)
August 15, 2025, 11:38 am
Bezalel launches new art wing, design hub
International Hub is aimed at supporting and inspiring young creatives
By Jessica Steinberg
Gur Inbar's 'Yarn of Clay' at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, open through May 1, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
January 27, 2025, 11:18 am
The way we wore: Textile exhibits weave local history of fabric craft
The art of textiles is examined in five related shows at the Herzliya Museum, while an exhibit of recycled materials at Hiriya looks at the waste created by the fashion industry
By Jessica Steinberg
Curator Tal Kobo at the Tower of David Museum's new exhibit, 'Spirit of the Stone,' which opened March 7, 2024 (Courtesy Ricky Rachman)
March 27, 2024, 6:59 am
Exhibit looks at 100 years of Jerusalem through the eyes of its artists
Set in new Tower of David pavilion in Old City and nearby Hamiffal art space, show serves up shot of history chased by exploration of the city’s complicated contemporary realities
By Jessica Steinberg
Michel Kichka's illustration, 'Be'eri Then and Today,' for Bezalel exhibit 'Wrapping Memory' for Jerusalem's Outline Festival which began in December 2023. (Courtesy)
December 26, 2023, 4:00 am
Artists illustrate reactions to Oct. 7 at Jerusalem’s Outline Festival
Aiming to bring light at a particularly dark time, illustrators depict Gaza border communities before they were ravaged by Hamas, among various exhibits
By Jessica Steinberg
At the newly formed Safe Side, Oz Zechovoy's volunteer sewing workshop in Jaffa that designs and makes combat gear pieces for soldiers in the 2023 Israel-Hamas War (Courtesy Rom Barnea)
October 22, 2023, 12:00 pm
Designers sew for combat soldiers, pivoting from fashion to function
Design schools Bezalel and Shenkar ramp up volunteer teams to customize gear for troops and reservists
By Jessica Steinberg
Students at Tel Aviv University on the first day of the academic year, October 10, 2021. (Flash90, via JTA)
July 17, 2023, 11:38 pm
Universities bristle at demand to use only masculine form in official documents
Tel Aviv University says it will ‘uphold its practice of publishing tenders that address men and women equally’; Bezalel art school to use only feminine form for a month
By ToI Staff
Sandra Weil (far left), Rola Khoury (center) and Roy Brand, co-curators of the first Autonomous Art Biennale, March 31-April 13, 2023 at Tel Aviv's Gymnasia Herzliya high school (Courtesy Eyal Izhar)
April 5, 2023, 10:30 am
Artistic freedom on display at historic high school’s Passover biennale
The first Autonomous Art Biennale opens at Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv, offering ‘Experiments in Learning’
By Jessica Steinberg
View of neighboring buildings and sites from inside the new Bezalel campus, Jerusalem, January 2023. (Courtesy SANAA Architects)
February 24, 2023, 2:29 pm
Bezalel’s new campus hopes to draw Jerusalem’s many communities into creative space
Israel’s oldest art and design school moves to downtown location, in bid to connect to capital’s diverse population
By Danielle Nagler
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a vote in the Knesset on February 15, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 16, 2023, 12:58 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 16: No invites abroad for PM; is Israel earthquake-ready?
US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses why Netanyahu isn’t heading to the US or UAE; real estate writer Danielle Nagler on construction reinforcement plans, and Jerusalem art
By ToI Staff
The new, $50 million Sam Spiegel building, part of the Jerusalem Arts Campus in downtown Jerusalem. (Courtesy)
November 29, 2022, 11:29 am
Film school’s second act gives starring role to new downtown Jerusalem arts campus
Sam Spiegel Film and TV School moves from industrial zone into new home on Jerusalem Campus for the Arts, a $50 million complex shared with academies for music, dance and acting
By Jessica Steinberg
Tomer Dekel's 'Valhalla' exhibit of Viking-esque playground equipment at Artport through November 26, 2022 (Courtesy Artport)
November 10, 2022, 9:35 pm
Artist plays with Viking myths and politics in seesaw Tel Aviv installation
Tomer Dekel’s ‘Valhalla’ exhibit at Artport Tel Aviv toys with ancient symbols, warfare and childhood imagination
By Jessica Steinberg
From Michael Liani's 'LGBTQ+ LOVE' photography project, Yael Rozin and Ayala Weiss and their children (Courtesy Michael Liani)
June 15, 2022, 3:01 pm
Photographer highlights queer love and families on Pride month
Michael Liani makes waves on Instagram with his ‘LGBTQ+ LOVE’ Israeli portrait series
By Jessica Steinberg
'Breakfast in the Katamonim,' oil, by Marek Yanai, on display at Beit Avi Chai exhibition, 'On the Threshold, Jerusalem in Oil and Watercolor,' through July 2022. (Courtesy Beit Avi Chai)
May 22, 2022, 9:55 am
Veteran Jerusalem artist paints small city moments in new exhibit
Marek Yanai’s ‘On the Threshold’ offers up deep, rich oil and watercolor paintings of Jerusalem at Beit Avi Chai, and is available online as well
By Jessica Steinberg
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