The Jewish studies program at the University of California at Berkeley and Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev were given $5 million each. The Helen and Sanford Diller Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma awarded the Beersheva-based school $5 million for a new humanities building bearing the family’s name.
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