Sheldon Adelson

Sheldon Gary Adelson (an haife shi ranar 4 ga watan Agusta, 1933 – ya rasu ranar 11 ga Janairu, 2021) ya kasance ɗan kasuwa, mai zuba jari, da mai ba da gudummawa a harkokin siyasa na Amurka.  Shi ne wanda ya kafa kuma shugaban Las Vegas Sands Corporation, kamfani mai kula da manyan gidajen caca da wuraren shakatawa kamar The Venetian a Las Vegas, The Venetian Macao a Macau, da Marina Bay Sands a Singapore.  Har ila yau, ya kasance mai mallakar jaridun Israel Hayom da Las Vegas Review-Journal. 

Rayuwa farko da Aiki
An haifi Adelson a unguwar Dorchester da ke Boston, Massachusetts, ga iyaye 'yan asalin Ukraine da Lithuania.  A lokacin yana da shekaru 10, ya fara kasuwanci ta hanyar karɓar bashin dala 200 daga ƙanwansa don siyan lasisin sayar da jaridu.  Daga baya, ya fara kasuwancin siyar da injunan alewa da kuma kayan gyaran jiki.  Ya halarci City College of New York amma bai kammala ba, sannan ya shiga aikin soja. 

Kasuwanci
A cikin shekarun 1970, Adelson da abokan aikinsa sun ƙirƙiri baje kolin fasahar kwamfuta na COMDEX, wanda ya zama ɗaya daga cikin manyan baje kolin kwamfuta a duniya.  A shekarar 1995, sun sayar da wannan kasuwanci ga SoftBank na Japan akan dala miliyan 862, inda Adelson ya samu fiye da dala miliyan 500. 

A shekarar 1988, ya sayi Sands Hotel and Casino a Las Vegas akan dala miliyan 110.  A cikin 1999, ya rushe Sands don gina The Venetian, wani babban otal da gidan caca mai jigo na birnin Venice, wanda ya kashe dala biliyan 1.5 wajen gina shi. 

Gudummawa da Siyasa
Adelson ya kafa Adelson Foundation a shekarar 2007 tare da matarsa Miriam, domin tallafawa harkokin kiwon lafiya da goyon bayan Isra'ila da al'ummar Yahudawa.  Ya kasance babban mai ba da gudummawa ga jam'iyyar Republican, inda ya bayar da fiye da dala miliyan 500 tsakanin 2010 zuwa 2020.  A shekarar 2016, ya bayar da dala miliyan 25 ga kamfen ɗin shugaban kasa na Donald Trump. 

Mutuwa
Adelson ya kamu da cutar peripheral neuropathy a shekarar 2001, wadda ta rage masa ikon tafiya.  A shekarar 2019, an bayyana cewa yana karɓar magani don cutar non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.  Ya rasu a ranar 11 ga Janairu, 2021, a gidansa da ke Malibu, California, yana da shekaru 87.  An binne shi a Mount of Olives, Jerusalem. 

Iyali
Adelson ya auri Miriam Ochshorn a shekarar 1991, likita kuma mai ba da gudummawa.  Sun haifi yara biyar tare.  Bayan rasuwarsa, Miriam ta ci gaba da kula da harkokin kasuwanci da gudummawa na iyalinsu.

Manazarta

Category:Haifaffun  1933
Category:Mutuwan 2021