Boris Shatz founded an art-and-crafts school in Jerusalem in 1906, naming it "Bezalel" for Bezalel Ben Uri, builder of the First Temple of biblical times. The Bezalel School heralded efforts to forge links with a broad range of Jewish artistic traditions from East and West. The school's daring innovation offered a leading role to the local Yemenite community, particularly in the Filigree Silver Department, which was inaugurated in 1908. By 1913, the Bezalel Silver Department numbered some eighty employees, among them Yehia Yemini (pictured in the center), who had been working there from the outset. Department head, Shmuel Persov, taught new concepts of filigree work that were not always familiar to his Yemenite employees; thus, the craftsmen, who ranged from children to the elderly, produced filigree work influenced both by the Yemenite and the East European style. Yehia Yemini distinguished himself with the quality of his work; his designs were interspersed with classical hammerings of Biblical heroes, holy places and tribal emblems and embellished with traditional verses. Filigree work was used with etching and hammering, with settings of stones, and with mother-of-pearl and enamel, as well as granulation and fine flowery adornment in the style of Russia and Poland. With his multi-dimensional perspective and outstanding Yemenite handcrafting skills, he created a pluralistic and eclectic style that came to embody the Bezalel Silver Department.

The Silver Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design was established in Jerusalem in 1908. Yehia Yemini (1896-1983) studied in the department's first class. Yaacov (1929-2010) began his studies at Bezalel in 1947, graduated in 1950, and joined Yehia in his studio, supplementing his father's traditional lines with more stylized and abstract ones. Boaz started "playing" in the family studio as a child alongside his father and grandfather. He followed in their footsteps and studied in the gold and silver department at Bezalel, where he graduated with honors in 1981. At Bezalel, he met his future wife Margie, who graduated from the Industrial Design Department the same year. For many years, the three worked together to create traditional pieces of jewelry and religious artifacts, while concurrently introducing more modern designs into their lines of Hanukkah menorahs, mezuzahs, kiddush cups, candlesticks, Havdalah sets, seder plates, and torah cases, pointers, and crowns. Subsequently to Yaacov’s passing in 2010, Boaz and Margie continue together to sustain the family studio and tradition.

Born in Jerusalem in 1956, Boaz joined Bezalel's silversmith and goldsmith department upon completion of his military service.  The department under Arie Ophir, like other sections of Bezalel, was at the time experiencing a shift towards innovative Western design. Boaz pursued his studies until 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 has brought to the design of traditional silver utensils. His early work as a 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.

Born in the US in 1955, Margie made aliya in 1972 and the following year began studying at the department of Graphic Design at Bezalel. After two years of study, she left to fulfill her two years of army service, and subsequently returned to Bezalel to begin a four-year stint in the department of Industrial Design. She graduated in 1981. That same year Margie and Boaz got married and began their most creative endeavor of all times - the upbringing and nurturing of a new generation of Yemini offspring. Under the attentive instruction of two master artists (in the form of her husband and father-in-law) Margie has mastered many of the silver production techniques. She also fills the role of associate designer, silver artist, graphic artist, photographer, secretary and designated family liaison to the world of computer technology.