{"id":433,"date":"2024-09-29T07:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2024-09-30T05:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T05:10:42","slug":"comper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/?page_id=433","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth and Tony Comper"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"433\" class=\"elementor elementor-433\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-beccf2c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"beccf2c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d298cd9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d298cd9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-555 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/tony_and_elizabeth_comper-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/tony_and_elizabeth_comper-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/tony_and_elizabeth_comper-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/tony_and_elizabeth_comper.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h2><h2><strong>THE ELIZABETH AND TONY COMPER FOUNDATION<\/strong><\/h2><p><em>Through their foundation, Elizabeth and Tony Comper have supported the Comper Center at the University of Haifa, an important platform to help scholars, policy makers and educators combat anti-semitism.<\/em><\/p><p>Tony\u00a0Comper (BA 1966 SMC, Hon LLD 1999) believes learning has the greatest impact when it integrates all aspects of a person. He himself has combined a life of extensive philanthropy in partnership with his late wife Elizabeth\u00a0Comper (1945-2014) and a remarkable four-decade career in financial services, culminating in his role as President and Chief Executive Officer of\u00a0BMO\u00a0Financial\u00a0Group.<\/p><p>Through the Elizabeth\u00a0and\u00a0Tony\u00a0Comper\u00a0Foundation, the couple have supported education, human rights and especially arts charities. One of their most extraordinary achievements was founding Fighting Anti-Semitism Together (FAST), an initiative to encourage Canadian leaders who are not Jewish to speak up against racism and bigotry. FAST\u2019s Choose Your Voice curriculum is used in thousands of schools across Canada, and hs reached more than 4.5 million student.<\/p><p>Through belief in the power of education and deep care for others, the Elizabeth\u00a0and\u00a0Tony\u00a0Comper\u00a0Foundation has supported important learning opportunities for students and research opportunities for scholars, contributing to greater insight, tolerance and justice in our world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ELIZABETH AND TONY COMPER FOUNDATION Through their foundation, Elizabeth and Tony Comper have supported the Comper Center at the University of Haifa, an important platform to help scholars, policy makers and educators combat anti-semitism. 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