For two days, Jerusalem pulsed with music, movement, color, and creativity as Bechorot brought together the city’s next generation of artists and creators. Exhibitions, performances, screenings, and installations spread across galleries, cultural spaces, and public venues, transforming the city into a vibrant celebration of emerging art and creative exchange.
Initiated and led by the Jerusalem Foundation in cooperation with the Jerusalem Municipality and with the support of the Jack, Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation, Bechorot is a unique arts festival bringing together students and recent graduates from Jerusalem’s leading arts institutions. Created to encourage collaboration between the city’s arts schools, the festival provides emerging artists with a professional platform to present their debut works, build creative connections, and take their first steps into Israel’s cultural landscape.
Jerusalem is home to 11 leading arts schools, where around 4,000 students’ study across all fields of the arts. This extraordinary concentration of talent and creativity, unmatched by any other city in Israel, makes Jerusalem one of the country’s most dynamic creative centers, continuously shaping new voices, ideas, and cultural perspectives.
For many of the participating artists, Bechorot is more than a festival. It is a first opportunity to share their work publicly, connect with other creators, and become part of Jerusalem’s evolving creative community, offering a glimpse into the future of the city’s cultural scene.
For 60 years, the Jerusalem Foundation has supported arts and culture across the city, helping generations of artists, institutions, and creative initiatives grow and thrive in Jerusalem