In , the Adelsons began to fund the Maccabee Task Force to support students on college campuses in promoting Israel, fighting anti-Semitism , and countering the activities of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions BDS movement. Construction of the Museum of Holocaust Art was supported by a generous donation from the Adelsons in memory of Dr.
The Adelsons also were the major donors for a medical school constructed on the campus of Ariel University, which was inaugurated in with the conspicuous absence of Prime Minister Netanyahu. They also funded the private, Boston-based Dr.
Adelson Medical Research Foundation. Estimates vary but it is believed that anywhere from , to one million Israelis, including Mrs. Adelson, live in the United States.
For decades, this population was relatively inactive on issues related to Israel. He received honorary degrees and other awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship given to the couple in by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution. Sheldon was raised a Democrat but later became a Republican. They left me. The couple is among the largest contributors to the Republican Party. In , the share prices of the Las Vegas Sands Corp.
He died on January 12, , at the age of Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library. Category » Biography. Actors and Comedians. Business Icons. Medal of Honor Recipients. Medal of Freedom Recipients. Musicians and Singers. Nobel Prize Laureates. Sheldon was a serial entrepreneur from a young age, running businesses that ranged from windshield de-icing kits to Comdex, once the leading computer industry tradeshow. When he and his partners sold Comdex in , it provided the wealth he used to demolish the one-time Rat Pack hangout Sands Casino and build the Venetian.
His experience in the conference business led him to a less gambling-centric approach to casinos that was so successful it inspired rivals including Steve Wynn to establish their own conference centers. Her grandparents and extended family were killed in the Holocaust. She described serving as a medical research officer in the Israel Defense Forces and developed an interest in treating drug dependency partly after helping prostitutes who took to the streets to feed their addictions.
The Israeli Ministry of Health recommended Miriam to study at Rockefeller University in under Dr Mary Jeanne Kreek, a leading researcher in the discovery of methadone as a heroin addiction treatment. Two years after her arrival in New York, Miriam asked Kreek and her husband to come to dinner with a man she was dating.
It was Sheldon. You guys are testing a new law. Miriam founded an addiction treatment clinic in Tel Aviv in and a second in Las Vegas in , where she is said to don a white lab coat and treat patients. The most radical thing about the school may be its enforcement of a stringent no-drugs policy. February 8, Thank you to the individuals and organizations that have generously donated collections of historical documents, photographs, and other materials to UNLV Libraries as part of the Jewish Heritage Project.
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