She later attended Rockefeller University in New York on an exchange program, focusing on treating drug addiction, which became her specialty.
Adelson routinely drops in at her treatment clinic hard by a nondescript strip mall in Las Vegas. She launched the clinic in , seven years after opening one in Tel Aviv — which she also visits when the couple is in Israel. She will don a white coat and personally treat patients. She couples treatment with research through Rockefeller University, where she worked in the late s and is a board member.
Her mentor there was Mary Jane Kreek, who developed methadone as a treatment for heroin addiction. By all accounts, the Adelsons are close partners in both philanthropy and politics. They married in following her divorce from fellow physician Ariel Ochshorn. However, the couple had a friendly and sometimes public disagreement over which of the more establishment Republican presidential candidates they preferred in the campaign.
He cared about standing up for what was right, even if that meant standing alone. Sheldon and I grew up on coasts: him in Boston, me in Haifa. To me, Sheldon had power and depth and mystery like the sea. His devotion lifted me, like waves, through challenges both personal and professional.
And now he is gone. The supporting waters have vanished heavenward. Only a vast, dry seabed remains. The loss is colossal. Farewell, my darling, my one true love. After gaining and giving so much, you have earned this rest.
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What will he do next? 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. Every student and employee is required to be randomly drug tested three to four times per year.
Miriam does some of the testing herself, Boland says. Those who fail a test are privately counseled, with education about the physical and mental effect of drugs.
The Adelsons jet frequently from Las Vegas to Tel Aviv, and they pushed for the controversial transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem, offering to pay for its cost in the face of vociferous international condemnation. She took over this summer as publisher of the Israel Hayom, the free Hebrew language daily newspaper that the Adelsons founded and she owns.
He treated his employees like family. The US-Israel relationship is stronger today because of him. My heart goes out to the Adelson family," he tweeted. Jump directly to the content.
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