Miriam Adelson is an Israeli-American physician, businesswoman, philanthropist, and conservative political donor. She is 80 years old as of 2025.
She is the person in charge of publishing Israel Hayom, and her family also owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper.
Net Worth, Ethnicity & Religion
According to the reports, her current net worth is approximately $41.3 billion from all of her income sources as of 2025(source). By October 2025, her total wealth was estimated to be about $34.6 billion, which ranked her as the 48th wealthiest person globally.
She is of Israeli-American ethnicity. Her religious faith is in the Jewish religion with deep roots in Israel and Zionism.
Husband, Parents & Siblings
According to the reports, she is married now. Before marrying Sheldon, she was married to another doctor named Ariel Ochshorn. They had two daughters, Sivan and Yasmin, and their marriage ended in divorce by 1986.
She met businessman Sheldon Adelson through a blind date in 1989, and they got married in 1991. They had two sons, Adam and Matan.
After Sheldon passed away in 2021, she took ownership of his casino company, Las Vegas Sands. She was born to her Israeli-American parents.
Her father’s name is Mr Simcha Farbstein, and her mother’s name is Mrs Menucha Farbstein. She has two brothers.
Early Life & Education Details
Her real name is Miriam Farbstein Adelson. She was born on 10 October 1945 in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. She is 80 years old as of 2025. She studied at the Hebrew Reali School for 12 years.
Later, she completed a science degree in microbiology and genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and then earned her medical degree with top honors from Tel Aviv University.
She completed her required army service as a medical officer in Ness Ziona. Later, she became the head of internal medicine department in the emergency room at Rokach (Hadassah) Hospital in Tel Aviv.
In 1986, she moved to Rockefeller University to work as a doctor focused on treating drug addiction.
Career Details
She runs the Adelson Foundations, which has two main parts. One is the Adelson Family Foundation, started in 2007, that supports Israel and Jewish communities.
The other is the Adelson Medical Research Foundation, which focuses on health and medical research.
The Adelson Foundation donates about $200 million every year to support Jewish and Israel-related causes, making it the largest private foundation doing this kind of work.
She serves as a voting trustee on the board at the University of Southern California and also helped fund the medical school at Ariel University, which opened in 2019.
From the 2010s onward, Adelson became one of the biggest personal donors to the Republican Party.
Starting in 2016, she was also a major financial supporter of Donald Trump, with her and her husband giving very large contributions to his election efforts, inauguration events, legal support funds, and his 2020 campaign.
In 2018, Trump honored her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She later became the third-largest contributor to his 2024 election campaign, giving $106 million. Their connection was also covered in Michael Wolff’s 2025 book All or Nothing.
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