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In 2006 Adelson donates 25 million dollars to the Zionist organization Birthright Israel, which finances Jewish travel to Israel to strengthen ties between Israeli Jews and diaspora. In 2007 Adelson donated twenty million dollars to Birthright Israel program that allows twenty thousand people participate in such trips. In 2011, Adelson donates 25 million more to keep the memory of the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem.

Adelson and his wife funded drug programs of The Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Center for the Biology of Addictive Diseases Dedicated at the University of Tel Aviv.