Pandemonium  means turmoil, tremendous noise, chaos. Pandemonium  is the climax of the ritual for Dionysus and the religious ecstasy that leads to purification and catharsis. Dionysian images and motifs, and associations to ritual, initiation and purification, can be discerned in works by Israeli artists. Those features might be symbolical and metaphorical in relation to the contemporary Israeli experience. This course relies on a interdisciplinary research in the context of Classical Reception Studies, and offers an examination of Dionysian features in Israeli art. This discussion employs ancient and research sources.  Amongst the discussed topics are: ritual and consecration in a local context; features of initiation and ordeal in political and gender contexts; otherness in Israeli society; manliness in a Dionysian context; Dionysian features in works by women artists; Dionysian work techniques in relation to personal biographies of individual artists; Catharsis, pandemonium , apotheosis and the death of god. Amongst the discussed artists: Sigalit Landau, Anisa Ashkar, Asad Azi, Josseph Krispel, Zohar Gotesman, Joshua Borkovsky and others.