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Miriam Adelson trained as a physician specializing in addiction medicine before her marriage to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson made her, following his death in 2021, one of the wealthiest women in America and a controlling owner of Las Vegas Sands and the Dallas Mavericks. She publishes Israel Hayom and, with her family, owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and has become one of the Republican Party's largest political donors, including major support for Donald Trump's campaigns; he awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018.