[2] The subject of the doctoral dissertation was "The Definition of Art (in Hebrew: הגדרת האמנות"[3] and it was later published as a book by the same name, by HaKibbutz Hameuchad.

[6] In 1980–1981 he curated nine pioneering exhibitions concentrated on the subject of the rise of postmodernism in Israeli art, at the Artists' House in Jerusalem.

[7] From 1993 to 1995, Ofrat curated the Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where he presented, among other things, Avital Geva's unique greenhouse project.

He was the curator (together with Galia Bar-Or) of the exhibition "Hegemony and Multiplicity – The 1950s in Israeli Art" at Ein Harod museum.

As a curator and historian, he works in full collaboration with the art field – with the artists themselves, with family archives and with museums in the periphery of Israel.

together with Dorit Levita), Masada Publishing, 1980; Bezalel – 100 Years, three volumes (in Hebrew: ספר בצלאל 100, co-edited with David Tartakover) Mifal Hapayis Publishing, Bezalel, 2006; Minor art – Israeli art at the dawn of the 21st century (in Hebrew: אמנות מינורית – אמנות ישראלית בשחר שנות האלפיים), Omanut Israel publishing, 2010; The Jewish Derrida, Syracuse University Press, 1998; and 100 Years of Art in Israel, Westview Press, 1998.