Sheldon Adelson, The American Jewish businessman and publisher of “Israel Today” and the controlling owner of the “Makor Rishon” newspaper, passed away today (Tuesday) at the age of 87. After the announcement of his death, his wife Miriam mourned him: “With great pain I announce the death of my husband Sheldon Adelson Following complications from a long illness. “
“Sheldon was the love of my life. He was my partner in love, philanthropy, political activity and entrepreneurship. He was my soul mate. For me – as well as for his children, grandchildren, his many friends and admirers, his employees and co-workers – he leaves a void that cannot be filled.” Added.
A statement from one of the companies he owns states: “The founder and director of our vision, passed away last night as a result of a complication of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer in which he contracted.”
Adelson has owned hotels and casinos in the city of Las Vegas, on the island of Macau in China, in Singapore and Vietnam. Recently, his fortune was estimated in the American magazine “Forbes” at over $ 35 billion. He entered the field of journalism in Israel, arguing that this is his way of exposing the Israeli public to fair and balanced media, when he began in 2006.
He was recently questioned about his talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which took place exactly three days before Netanyahu’s first interrogation and began on the day Netanyahu was summoned for interrogation. However, later Adelson decided that he did not intend to talk to Netanyahu anymore because of the move he made behind his back with Noni Mozes.
He was born in Boston, and is married to Miriam, a physician by profession who specializes in drug rehab and a former Israeli. The first business he set up was to sell skincare products. Previously, he was married and divorced from a woman named Sandra, and the couple adopted two sons and a daughter, one of whom died of an overdose in 2005.
At the beginning of his career, he and his partners developed a computer exhibition, COMDEX, which later became a leading exhibition in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1988, Adelson and his partners purchased the Sands Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, and a year later built the Sands Convention and Exhibition Center, which became the only private conference center in the United States. In 1991, while spending his honeymoon in Venice, he found inspiration in the city as a theme for a huge resort hotel.