She is the wife of the late Sheldon Adelson: “ Adelson created the Adelson Foundation in 2007, a private charity focusing on healthcare and support of Israel and the Jewish people. He was a major contributor to Republican Party candidates[9][10] and was often dubbed a "kingmaker" due to the size and frequency of his donations.[11][12] He and his wife Miriam Adelson were Donald Trump's largest donors, providing the largest donation to Trump's 2016 campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference, and the 2020 campaign.[13][14][15][16][17][18] He was also a major backer of Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[19] In 2020, Forbes listed his net worth as US$29.8 billion.[20] Early life edit

Adelson was born on August 4, 1933, and grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, the son of Sarah (née Tonkin) and Arthur Adelson.[21] He was Jewish.[22] His father's family was of Ukrainian Jewish and Lithuanian Jewish ancestry.[23] His mother emigrated from England, and Adelson said that his grandfather was a Welsh coal miner.[24] His father was a taxi driver, and his mother ran a knitting shop.[25] He began his business career at the age of 12 when he borrowed $200 from his uncle (equivalent to $3,385 in 2023) and purchased a license to sell newspapers in Boston.[26] In 1948, at the age of 15, he borrowed $10,000 (equivalent to $126,814 in 2023) from his uncle to start a candy vending-machine business.[27] He attended the City College of New York, but did not graduate.[28] He attended trade school in a failed attempt to become a court reporter, then joined the army.[29] After being discharged from the army, he established a business selling toiletry kits, then started another business, De-Ice-It, which marketed a chemical spray that cleared ice from windshields.[29] In the 1960s, he started a charter tour business.[30] He soon became a millionaire, although by his thirties he had built and lost his fortune twice. Over the course of his business career, Adelson created almost 50 businesses, making him a serial entrepreneur.[31]