[1] Their mother was Barbara Ingrid Beitz, an ethnic German whose parents were awarded the "Righteous among the Nations" honorific by the State of Israel for providing refuge and risking their lives to save Jews during World War II.
Robert Ziff studied undergraduate electrical and computer engineering at Harvard, graduating magna cum laude.
[1][6] After law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Monroe G. McKay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Salt Lake City, Utah, and later served as vice president of strategic planning at Ziff Communications Company.
[6][7][8] Daniel Ziff graduated in 1989 from the Trinity School in New York City,[3] and later earned a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University.
It was bought by Jim Clark, who then sold it to Larry Ellison for $173 million in 2022 which was the largest residential sale ever in Florida at the time.
[citation needed] In 2018, Dirk and Daniel Ziff donated $2 million to the Center for Climate and Life, a research initiative at Columbia's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory.