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Joshua Mitnick, Carmiel Arbit, Neri Zilber, Jonathan H. Ferziger

Dead Men Don’t Testify

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in an East Room event at the White House as Founder, Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Ochsorn look on Jan 28, 2020. Alex Wong/Getty Images

TEL AVIV, Israel—When Sheldon Adelson died last month, Benjamin Netanyahu lost the kind of benefactor that most politicians only dream of having.

Adelson, a Jewish-American casino magnate, spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to help Netanyahu amass power and keep his job as prime minister longer than any other Israeli leader.

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