BGU&U | SPRING 2022

Dr. Howard and Lottie Marcus. Photo courtesy of Matthew Mishory

A new documentary film attempts to unravel the mystery behind the couple who made the largest charitable gift in BGU’s–and Israel’s– history. Discovering Marcuses the

In a moment of introspection during an interview for Who Are the Marcuses? a new documentary from Rubber Ring Films and Stone Canyon Entertainment, Warren Buffett says with a modest smile, “there’s a lot of chance in life.” To be sure, he was speaking primarily of his own remarkable route to vast wealth. Yet the

sentiment could easily be applied to Howard and Lottie Marcus, the early investors for whom he built an astonishing fortune, which they in turn bequeathed almost in full to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. There was, for starters, the couple’s good luck to have escaped their native Germany just before

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