In December 2024, Mart Kalm, the rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts (Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, EKA), announced that this university wonโt continue the cooperation with Dr. Jonathan Ventura from Shenkar College in Ramat Gan (Israel), whose course has been in the EKA curriculum since 2019 and should have taken place again in February 2025. Prof. Kalm added that EKA is โno longer openโ to cooperation with Israeli universities. There was no clear reasoning behind this.