Philanthropy
In 2003, Whitman donated $23 million to Syracuse University which renamed its School of Management after Whitman. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Yale School of Management In 2008, he and his wife founded the The Lois and Martin Whitman Scholarship Fund at Tel Aviv University to support the educational needs of Arab-Israeli students. Whitman related his experience as a Jew in the United States, “I spent half my life as a second-class citizen” and his inability to attend Ivy League colleges at the time. Sympathizing with their situation, he told the students it is important “to give scholarships to Arab students at Tel Aviv University."
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