How Old Is Sheldon Adelson
Billionaire and casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson seems to be at it again. The 79 year old is now outlining a plan for a new anti-online-gaming campaign, just a few months after his initial public criticism of the industry.
Back in June, Adelson wrote an article for Forbes Magazine where he criticised and condemned the online gaming industry including online casino, poker and other forms of gambling, describing the activity as 'fool's gold' and warning of the dangers of problem gambling in online environments. He also made an appeal to the US government to ban all forms of online gaming throughout the nation as it was, according to his views, “a societal train wreck waiting to happen.”
At that point there was massive outcry and opposition by the online gaming community, especially the online poker industry, many of whom decided to boycott Adelson's properties. He was branded as narrow-minded, selfish, self-serving and inaccurate. This opposition doesn't seem to have had any effect on Adelson since he now is re-enforcing his anti-online-gambling campaign.
Many are taking his newest initiative lightly, but the online gambling community should be wary for his influence and money can go a long way. Both his numerous and quantious donations to the Republican Party and his network of influential politicians can be used as assets in Adelson's quest to ban online gaming.
Sheldon Adelson Net Worth: Sheldon Adelson is an American billionaire businessman who has a net worth of $30 billion. His extensive fortune is largely. Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson—the man who singlehandedly saved Newt Gingrich's tanking candidacy with a well-timed contribution to Gingrich's super PAC, Winning Our Future—tells my colleague Steven.
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written by Connie Bruck (who is married to former congressman, AIPAC board member and Barack Obama-supporter Mel Levine), which is well worth reading for the insight it offers into his background, his business dealings in Las Vegas and China and his dealings with the White House and other players in the American-Jewish community.The piece, though, is on shakier ground when it comes to Adelson's efforts to influence Israeli politics, primarily through his investment in the give-away newspaper Yisrael Hayom.Bruck dutifully notes how the paper has become known in local media circles as the 'Bibi-ton,' due to its clear slant in favor of Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu; recounts Adelson's attempts to influence Shas and former coalition member Israel Beiteinu to quit the Olmert government; and describes how his sponsorship of President Shimon Peres's 'Facing Tomorrow' conference got him a front-row seat next to all the machers present.Bruck goes on, though, to claim: 'In Israel, where political, academic and business leaders tend to be outspoken, there is a striking reticence at the mention of Sheldon Adelson. Even people who are diametrically opposed to his politics refuse to be interviewed. 'There is a discernible amount of self-censorship going on,' the liberal Israeli-American writer Bernard Avishai said. 'There is no ideological justification for what Sheldon is doing among the Israeli intelligentsia and a revulsion at an American weighing in so heavily on Israeli politics, in such a crude, reactionary way. But they won't speak.'Well, this is nonsense, of course. I don't know who Bruck tried to interview, and of course anybody who's been a direct beneficiary of Adelson's laudable generosity - including presumably the intelligentsia at Jerusalem's Shalem Center, the right-wing think tank he has generously sponsored - is unlikely to go on record criticizing him. But plenty of people (including this writer) have gone on record regarding Adelson's political meddling, and Bruck herself quotes from Yediot AharonotHow Old Is Sheldon Adelson And His Wife
columnist Nahum Barnea's broadsides against 'a right-wing extremist, who is convinced that Israel is governed by a corrupt, unpatriotic and illegitimate government,' and 'Adelson's project' Yisrael Hayom
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, although recent reports also suggest a rival for the paper may have emerged in the form of Leonid Blavatnik, a London-based Russian-Jewish ogliarch far more low-key than the likes of Adelson or Gaydamak.I, for one, would gladly welcome either billionaire making that deal, or any other they cared to invest in the local media market. Diaspora Jews, at any rate, are going to continue to vent their views on how Israel should conduct itself no matter what, so at least they should be encouraged to put their money where their mouth is, when giving us their two cents worth.