1. Miriam Adelson is a physician, businesswoman, conservative-zionist megadonor to American politics, the richest Israeli, and 58th richest person in the world.
33 Facts About Miriam Adelson
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Miriam Adelson is the current publisher of Israel Hayom and, with her family, owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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Miriam Adelson was the third largest donor to Donald Trump's 2024 election bid, giving 106 million dollars in exchange for a commitment from Donald Trump to annex the West Bank.
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Miriam Adelson's father was a prominent member of Mapam, a left-wing political party in Israel.
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Miriam Adelson attended the Hebrew Reali School for 12 years.
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Miriam Adelson served mandatory army service as a medical officer at Ness Ziona.
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Miriam Adelson eventually became the chief internist in an emergency room at Tel Aviv's Rokach Hospital.
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Miriam Adelson went to Rockefeller University in 1986 as an associate physician specializing in drug addiction.
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Miriam Adelson has published numerous scientific papers on the topic of drug addiction during her career and has been a guest investigator at Rockefeller University.
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Miriam Adelson married Ariel Ochshorn, a physician, and had daughters Sivan Ochshorn and yasmin lukatz.
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In July 2024, Miriam Adelson donated $3 million to Israeli volunteer emergency medical services organization United Hatzalah.
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In 2018, Miriam Adelson was named the publisher of Israel Hayom, the most widely read newspaper in Israel, a position she still holds.
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Miriam Adelson remains the majority owner of Las Vegas Sands, which she runs along with her family.
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Miriam Adelson is a voting member on the board of trustees at the University of Southern California and is the president of the Maccabee Task Force.
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Miriam Adelson was a financial backer of Ariel University's controversial medical school which opened in the West Bank in 2019.
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Miriam Adelson was the top female donor in the 2012 United States elections, contributing as much as the next 15 female donors combined.
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On January 31,2019, ABC News reported that Sheldon and Miriam Adelson had contributed $500,000 to the Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust, which was set up in 2018 to assist aides of President Trump under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
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Miriam Adelson served as one of the finance vice-chairs for the first inauguration of Donald Trump.
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Miriam Adelson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump in 2018.
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Miriam Adelson gets it, and she's a healthy, beautiful woman, and they're rated equal.
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In May 2024, Politico reported that Miriam Adelson would contribute $90 million to a Super PAC supporting Trump.
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In January 2025, the Times of Israel reported that Miriam Adelson gave Trump's campaign at least $100 million in October 2024, making her that campaign's third largest donor.
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Since buying a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks, Miriam Adelson has been advocating for greater legalization of gambling in Texas, in order to build a casino in the state.
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Miriam Adelson has said that her heart is in Israel and that she got "stuck" in America after meeting her husband.
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Miriam Adelson is credited with influencing Sheldon Adelson's political views on Israel and inspiring him to donate handsomely to Zionist Causes.
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Miriam Adelson is a financial supporter of the Zionist Organization of America, the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and memorial in Jerusalem, and various US groups that fundraise for the Israeli military.
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Miriam Adelson is the organization's president, but this is not lost listed on the organization's website.
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Miriam Adelson is a big supporter of Birthright Israel, a program that brings young Jews to Israel for free.
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The program's largest individual donors have been Sheldon Adelson and Miriam Adelson, who had given more than $250 million to Birthright Israel by 2015.
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Miriam Adelson sought support from candidate Trump for Israel's annexation of the West Bank, pledging more than $100 million to Trump's campaign in exchange for US recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the region.
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Miriam Adelson has written that Trump "should enjoy sweeping support" among US Jews and Israelis, and that Trump deserves a "Book of Trump" in the Bible due to his support for Israel.
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Miriam Adelson is noted for pushing Trump to pardon Aviem Sella.
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Since the death of her husband, Miriam Adelson has been ranked as one of the wealthiest people in the world.