Miriam Adelson

Miriam Adelson
מרים אדלסון
Adelson in 2023
Born
Miriam Farbstein

(1945-10-10) 10 October 1945
Nationality
  • American
  • Israeli
EducationHebrew University of Jerusalem (BS)
Tel Aviv University (MD)
Spouses
Ariel Ochshorn
(div. 1986)
    (m. 1991; died 2021)
    Children4, 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, business woman, philanthropist, and conservative political donor. She was married to Sheldon Adelson until his death in 2021.

    As of May 2025, estimates place her wealth at US$29.5 billion. As of 2024, she was the 58th richest person in the world. Notable holdings include the Las Vegas Sands and the Dallas Mavericks. 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 since 2016 she has been one of the most prominent financial supporters of Donald Trump. She and her husband provided the largest donation to his 2016 campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference, and the 2020 campaign. She was the third largest donor to Trump's 2024 election bid, donating $106 million.

    Adelson has consistently advocated for the US government to adopt pro-Israel policies, including supporting Israel's annexation of the West Bank.

    Trump awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018.