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The Growing Competition of Design SchoolsMany young people are flocking to the central schools of design, which are doing all they can to withstand the competition among themselves and against the longtime leader of the pack, Bezalel.
"In the past few years, design has become a routine profession, like law and medicine," says Professor Yaakov Kaufman, one of Israel's premier designers.
Indeed, there has been an increase in the past three years in the number of young people registering for study programs in the various design disciplines, primarily graphic design and industrial design. New study institutions are opening, and the existing institutions are expanding activities.
Ascola-Meimad College for Arts and Design reports an enrollment increase of approximately 30 percent for the upcoming school year; the Holon Academic Technological Institute reports a 50 percent rise in enrollment in the past three years; and WIZO Haifa reports a 30 percent increase in enrollment this coming year.
Israel has five major institutions for design study: the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (ceramic and glass design, industrial design, jewelry and visual communications); the School of Design at the Holon Academic Technological Institute (industrial design, graphic design, interior design and art and design, though the latter department is said to be closing be
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