page_title: Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett
section_title: Benefactions, Zionism and honours
hierarchical_section_title: Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett / Benefactions, Zionism and honours
caption_attribution_description: statue of sir alfred mond (lord melchett) by batia lichansky, tel-mond, israel
context_page_description: Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, PC, FRS, DL, known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt, between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician. In his later life he became an active Zionist.
context_section_description: Mond's father had bequeathed a collection of old master paintings to the National Gallery and Alfred provided housing for them in 1924.  In 1929 he provided land in Chelsea for the Chelsea Health Society.
  He first visited Palestine in 1921 with Chaim Weizmann and subsequently became an enthusiastic Zionist, contributing money to the Jewish Colonization Corporation for Palestine and writing for Zionist publications. He became President of the British Zionist Foundation and made financial contributions to Zionist causes.   Melchett founded the town of Tel Mond, now in Israel.
  Melchett also started building what is now one of the few private houses on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, now known as Villa Melchett. Tel Aviv and several other Israeli cities have a Melchett Street commemorating him.
  One of Mond's most enduring contributions to Zionism did not come through direct political means but through his enthusiastic and active support of Pinhas Rutenberg, whom the British Government granted exclusive concessions to produce and distribute electricity in Palestine. Mond sat on the Board of the Palestine Electric Company and actively promoted the case of the company in London's political and industrial circles
  Mond was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1928 and received a number of honorary degrees from Oxford, Paris and other universities.
caption: Statue of Lord Melchett at Tel Mond, Israel
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