Israel Museum’s longstanding and well-connected director to step aside

The Israel Museum will be seeking a new director as James Snyder announced that after 20 years at the helm of the Jerusalem institution he will become its international president. The US-born director, who arrived in Jerusalem in 1997 having worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is due to take up the new role in January 2017.
Snyder’s successful fundraising and the institution’s global network of supporters, which he has been instrumental in developing, enabled the institu