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Swords To Plowshares

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A birthing seat designed by Noah Wald of Bezalel.

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srael's military industries
are in trouble. Events in
the Persian Gulf not-
withstanding,
defense
budgets have been reduced
almost everywhere and de-
mand for the products of
those industries has shrunk.
Coming to their assistance
— by suggesting ways in
which military technology
can be utilized for the produc-
tion of civilian goods — is the
Bezalel Academy of Arts and
Design in Jerusalem. At a re-
cent Jerusalem exhibition,
Bezalel students of industrial
design displayed a whole
series of ingenious devices
which, quite literally, turned
swords into plowshares. For
example:
• Simulation techniques us-
ed to help soldiers practice
military skills off the bat-
tlefield were employed by
David Shapira to create a
device which permits aspiring
conductors to practice and im-
prove their baton-waving
skills.
• Seats for pilots manufac-
tured by a subsidiary of Israel
Aircraft Industries inspired
Noah Wald's design of a new
type of seat-bed for women
giving birth in hospital
delivery rooms.
• Computerized guidance
devices produced by local
military industries as naviga-
tional aids in the air and on
the sea were the prototype for
Joseph Hefetz's hand-held in-
strument that will enable
tourists to find their way
around strange cities and
countries.
• Visors on the helmets of
motorcyclists may soon boast
an array of data (speed,
revolutions per minute, road
conditions ahead, etc.) in the

Nechemia Meyers writes from
Rehovot, Israel.

same way as helmets of
fighter pilots, and at a much
lower cost, if a device made by
Ephraim Bar goes into
production.
swords-into-
That
plowshares exhibition — as
well as displays of students'
work in graphic design,
ceramic design, architecture
and environmental design,
sculpture, painting, photo-
graphy, animation, video,
jewelry and metal work
— took place within the
framework of celebrations
marking the inauguration of
Bezalel's new Jerusalem cam-
pus, adjoining Hebrew
University on Mount Scopus.
The campus brings together
units that had been scattered
in 12 separate locations all
over town, a very costly ar-
rangement because the in-
stitution was paying
$250,000 a year in rent and
had to maintain duplicate
facilities (five libraries and
three print workshops, for ex-
ample). Such fragmentation
also engendered a lack of
cohesion; each department
tended to operate like an in-
dependent principality.
Of course, Bezalel can never
regain the cohesion it had
upon its establishment in
1906 by Boris Schatz, who
was born in Latvia, studied in
Paris and came to the Holy
Land from Bulgaria, where
he was a professor at the
Academy of Visual Arts in
Sofia. Mr. Schatz concen-
trated on the creation of a
distinctly Jewish art style
based on the folk motifs of
Jewish handicrafts from an-
cient times down to the 19th
century. Jerusalem, he felt,
shouldn't imitate Paris.
Today, in contrast, Bezalel
sees itself as part and parcel
of the world art scene, which
is why, incidentally, the
school has yet to accept any
newly arrived art student
from the Soviet Union, where,
in the words of one Bezalel

