The donation from Jon and Mindy Gray is aimed at addressing Israel’s physician shortage and at helping underserved students become doctors.

The Blackstone President talks philanthropy, politics, and why he and his wife Mindy chose to support Israeli medical education after October 7.

Jonathan Gray, president and chief operating officer of the global investment firm Blackstone, and his wife, Mindy, are donating $125 million (about 450 million shekels) to Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medicine—the largest single donation in the university’s history and one of the most significant ever given to an Israeli academic institution.

Following university's largest-ever donation, the School of Medicine will be named for Blackstone president Jonathan Gray and his wife, Mindy

The president of the global private equity firm Blackstone and his wife are donating $125 million to Tel Aviv University’s health science and medical school, in the largest gift in the school’s history.

The gift is expected to help double the number of Arab Israeli students in the medical school.