Adelson family donating $40M to Tel Aviv cancer treatment center

The household of the precocious casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is donating $40 cardinal to the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center successful Israel for the operation of a crab attraction center.

The donation comes astir 1 twelvemonth aft Adelson, who founded and served arsenic president and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., died from complications related to the attraction for non-Hodgkin lymphoma successful January 2021.

Adelson had planned the donation earlier his death, according to the Israel Hayom newspaper. The funds volition assistance commencement the operation of the 20-story Adelson National Center for Advanced Cancer Therapy, which volition beryllium built successful 2 stages implicit a play of 5 years.

The Review-Journal is owned by the household of Dr. Miriam Adelson, the bulk shareholder of Las Vegas Sands Corp.

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