Miriam Ochshorn Adelson
FULL NAME: MIRIAM OCHSHORN ADELSON nee FARBSTEIN
ALIAS: MIRI, DR. MIRIAM
FAMILY
HUSBAND: SHELDON ADELSON <<< DECEASED.
Awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom
November 16, 2019
Donald Trump awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Miriam Adelson at the White House on 16 November 2018. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Time in the IDF
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.
Sources
Undated
- Wikipedia. Miriam Adelson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Adelson (Wikipedia is not a trusted source, but is useful for references)
2025
- The Guardian. Trump mega-donor’s paper savages his pardon of Las Vegas Republican. Adam Babbatt. April 26, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/trump-miriam-adelson-las-vegas-review-journal
- "Adelson, who is worth $35bn, spent $100m on re-electing Trump in 2024, but apparently decided not to intervene when the Review-Journal, Nevada’s largest newspaper, attacked him on Friday."
2024
- Middle East Eye. Miriam Adelson: Who is the Israeli billionaire backing Trump? Umar A Farooq. November 19, 2024. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/miriam-adelson-who-is-israeli-billionaire-backing-trump
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" Trump's choice for US ambassador to Israel is Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who is vehemently pro-Israel and has previously said there is "no such thing" as a Palestinian. In 2013, Huckabee was given the Adelson Defender of Israel Award at a dinner hosted by the Zionist Organisation of America.
Trump's pick for UN ambassador to the UN, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, also received this same award from Miriam in March of this year.
Trump also tapped former Senator Rubio as his secretary of state, the same man that, in 2015, he referred to as a "puppet of Sheldon Adelson"."
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2023
- Israel Hayom. Dead to us. Dr. Miriam Adelson. November 21, 2023. https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/dead-to-us/
- "If you condemn Hamas and then add a "but" followed by condemnation of Israel, you're dead to us."
- "If you fail to recognize that Israel could end the threats to its existence by bringing its power fully to bear and eliminating Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian regime but does not do so due to its concern for civilian suffering, you're dead to us."
2019
- The Guardian. Meet Dr Miriam Adelson: the record-breaking Republican donor driving Trump's Israel policy. Christina Binkley. January 7, 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/07/meet-dr-miriam-adelson-the-record-breaking-republican-donor-driving-trumps-israel-policy
- “Sheldon is everything to me. He is my best friend, as I know I am to him, and he is a ‘mensch’. He claims that I’m an angel and I say he is the ‘wind beneath my wings’. In any case, we are on a magnificent flight together.” - Miriam
- "Miriam Ochshorn Adelson – “Miri” to friends and “Dr Miriam” to some colleagues – was born in Tel Aviv in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine to parents who had escaped Poland in the 1930s. Her grandparents and extended family were killed in the Holocaust. “They raised me to foster and fight for liberty – for myself, for my people, for wider humankind, and at all times,” Miriam once wrote in a column. 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 1986 under Dr Mary Jeanne Kreek, a leading researcher in the discovery of methadone as a heroin addiction treatment. Kreek became Miriam’s mentor and friend. 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."