My doctoral research examines "New Bezalel – School of Arts and Crafts" (Bezalel Art Academy between 1935-1965) during the period that followed the rise of the Nazi Party to power, during World War II, the Holocaust and afterwards, until the end of the 1940s. Since its opening in 1935, teachers along with candidates for studies, mostly from Western and Central Europe, sent personal documents and artworks to "New Bezalel" with the goal of being admitted to the institution. The immigration visa to Israel was a refuge from what was happening in Europe. In the correspondence documenting the relationship between "New Bezalel", Jewish organizations and the candidates themselves, a rescue operation to bring them to Mandatory Palestine is revealed.

After World War II, in a sharp transition from the horrors of the Holocaust, dozens of Holocaust survivors immigrated and came to study art at “New Bezalel", among them were those who would become prominent artists. In December 1946, Beit HaNakot (The Bezalel Museum) presented a precedent exhibition called "Behind the Bars - Paintings from the Concentration Camps", which for the first time revealed images from the Holocaust to the Israeli public. My research seeks to examine what was the contribution of "New Bezalel" as an institution for rescuing Jews before and during the war, how it treated the survivors, and what was the effect of the exhibition "Behind the bars" on the remembrance of the Holocaust in Israel. I am writing my thesis under the guidance of Prof. Shalom Sabar and Prof. Yifat Weiss.

I hold a bachelor's and master's degree from the Department of Art History at the Hebrew University and a teaching certificate from the Kerem Institute in Jerusalem. My MA thesis, supervised by Prof. Gal Ventura, dealt with images of fortune tellers in 19th century French art. Currently, I am a fellow of The Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry.