Born in Jerusalem in 1956, he joined Bezalel’s silversmith and goldsmith department upon completion of his military service.  The department under Arie Ofir, like other sections of Bezalel, was at the time experiencing a shift towards innovative Western design. Boaz Yemini pursued his studies till 1981, absorbing the abstract geometrical minimalism that the department’s teachers had adopted under the influence of advanced Anglo-Saxon sculpture. Totally lean forms; the blending of silver with novel materials (brass, perspex, wood and iron, for example); an inclination towards modularity, serialization, aesthetic simplicity and a striving for the utmost uniformity – these are untraditional values Boaz Yemini has brought to the design of traditional silver utensils. His early work as silversmith in the family studio has shown a continued inclination towards forms and figures, which were in part surrealistic, organic, and fluid; nevertheless, his other creations are characterized by starker forms, injecting the traditional articles with an innovative and sophisticated structuralism (with an occasional leaning towards kineticism). Throughout his career, Boaz has added a variety of modes and tangents to ornamentation, his Yemenite affiliation.