Miriam Adelson

Miriam Adelson was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv

Miriam Farbstein was born in Tel Aviv in 1945 to parents who came from Poland. Her father was a member of Mapam and owned movie theaters in Haifa, where the family moved. She attended the Hebrew Reali School.

She earned a degree in microbiology and genetics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She then completed a medical degree at Tel Aviv University. She served in the army as a medical officer, including at Ness Ziona.

She headed internal medicine in the emergency room at Rokach (Hadassah) Hospital in Tel Aviv. In 1986 she went to Rockefeller University to work on drug addiction with Mary Jeanne Kreek. In 1993 she and Sheldon Adelson opened the Adelson Clinic in Tel Aviv, and a Las Vegas center followed in 2000.

She married Sheldon Adelson in 1991, and they had 2 sons. Since 2018 she has been the publisher of Israel Hayom. After her husband died in 2021, she became the majority owner of Las Vegas Sands, and in 2023 she took control of the Dallas Mavericks.

She and her husband gave to Jewish and Israeli causes, including Birthright and the Ariel University medical school. She has donated to Republican candidates, including Donald Trump. In 2018 Trump awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.