15 Facts About Miriam Adelson

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Miriam Adelson is an American and Israeli physician and billionaire.

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Miriam Adelson is the current publisher of the newspaper Israel Hayom.

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Miriam Adelson is a voting member on the board of trustees at the University of Southern California.

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Miriam and Sheldon Adelson were presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution in 2008.

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Miriam Adelson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump in 2018.

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Miriam Adelson's father was a prominent member of the Mapam political party.

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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 married Ariel Ochshorn, a physician, with whom she had two children.

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Miriam Adelson divorced Ochshorn in the 1980s, and while studying at Rockefeller University, she met Sheldon Miriam Adelson, whom she married in 1991.

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Miriam Adelson is credited with influencing Sheldon's political views on Israel and served as one of the 'finance vice-chairs' for the inauguration of Donald Trump.

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Miriam Adelson became a physician and eventually the chief internist in an emergency room at Tel Aviv's Rokach Hospital.

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Miriam Adelson was mentored by and collaborated with Mary Jeanne Kreek.

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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 pushed for the pardon of Aviem Sella who spied against America.