Miriam Adelson

Miriam Adelson
מרים אדלסון
Adelson in 2023
Born	Miriam Farbstein (1945-10-10) 10 October 1945 (age 81) Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Nationality	American Israeli
Education	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BS) Tel Aviv University (MD)
Spouses	Ariel Ochshorn ​ (div. 1986)​ Sheldon Adelson ​ ​ (m. 1991; died 2021)​
Children	4, including Matan
Awards	Presidential Medal of Freedom (2018) Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship (2008) Doctor Honoris Causa by Tel Aviv University (2007)

Miriam Adelson (Hebrew: מרים אדלסון) is an Israeli-American physician, businesswoman, philanthropist, and conservative political donor. She was married to Sheldon Adelson until his death in 2021.

In 2025, her net worth was US$29.5 billion. In 2024, she was the 58th richest person in the world. She is the current publisher of Israel Hayom and, with her family, owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Since the 2010s, Adelson has been one of the Republican Party's largest individual donors and has been a well known donor to President Donald Trump.

Adelson is known for pushing lawmakers for pro-Israel policies.

Trump awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018.

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• Binkley, Christina (2019-01-07). "Meet Dr Miriam Adelson: the record-breaking Republican donor driving Trump's Israel policy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-15.

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