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Sheldon Gary Adelson (August 4, 1933 – January 11, 2021) was an American businessman, [2] investor, political donor, and philanthropist. [3] [4] [5] He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited, which operated The Venetian Las Vegas and the Sands Expo and ...
Noteworthy donations of the organization include: $50 million to the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Educational Campus, another $67 million in total was donated to their Medical Research Foundation, and $33 million to the Birthright Israel Foundation, and $13 million toward paying for the promotional trips to Israel, Jerusalem and the Golan ...
Miriam Adelson (née Farbstein; born 10 October 1945) is an Israeli-American physician and political donor. She was married to Sheldon Adelson from 1991 until his death in 2021. After his death, she became the owner of the Las Vegas Sands and as of August 2024, is estimated to be the fifth richest woman in America with a net worth of US$30 ...
The Adelsons are known for their philanthropy and business ventures in Israel and donations to Jewish causes. Sheldon Adelson, who died in 2021, headed the casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Then-President Donald Trump, presents Miriam Adelson, philanthropist and wife of billionaire Sheldon Adelson, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White ...
(Sheldon Adelson died in 2021.) ... may be more vulnerable to the onslaught of attack ads and mudslinging that billionaires can finance through mega donations to super PACs. If so, Biden will be ...
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. [36] [37] Other major donors include prominent philanthropists Charles Bronfman, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Daniel Och, Marlene Post, Lynn Schusterman, and Michael Steinhardt.
In April 2019, Gift of Life opened the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Gift of Life - NMDP Collection Center in collaboration with NMDP at its Florida headquarters. [10] The Collection Center primarily collects blood stem cells from donors for transplant into a patient. The stem cells are taken by a courier to the patient’s transplant center.