Overview

• In a Knesset address Monday, the president asked the Israeli-born physician and mega-donor to stand and recounted her frequent White House access with the late Sheldon Adelson.
• He credited the couple with influencing his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem, and his 2019 stance on Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
• A senior U.S. official said Miriam Adelson pressed the president behind the scenes to keep working for the return of hostages abducted from Israel to Gaza in 2023.
• Reuters reported that the last surviving hostages returned on Monday, the day of the speech that brought her role into public view.
• Adelson, a 2018 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and major Trump campaign donor, attended with her son Matan Adelson and Likud lawmaker Boaz Bismuth.