Ultimately, though, he once said he hoped his philanthropic works in Israel would be his true legacy, rather than the opulent, sprawling destination casino resorts he created.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nMacau may have made him one of the wealthiest people in the world, but it was not the Promised Land.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now in the country Sheldon loved so much,\u201d Miriam Adelson said in a statement. \u201cIt is just hard to believe that he will no longer get to see it in his own eyes. This time he has come for his final resting place, not in order to search for a way to help and contribute.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a feeling of great emptiness and loss, but also a sense of comfort, knowing that he is no longer suffering and that he will soon lie in the Mount of Olives, in Zion, next to some of the greatest people of our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sheldon Adelson was laid to rest Friday at a small private funeral on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. The billionaire casino mogul died Tuesday of complications related to treatment for non-Hodkinson\u2019s lymphoma. He was 87. The Times of Israel reports that Adelson\u2019s casket arrived in Israel on Thursday evening. Draped in Israeli and US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":161483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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