Sir Arthur Gilbert (born Abraham Bernstein; May 16, 1913 – September 2, 2001) was a British-born American real estate developer, art collector and philanthropist.
[2] His parents were Jewish Polish immigrants who had moved to London in 1897,[1][4] and they also owned land and built a house in Rishon LeZion.
[4] Gilbert served on the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
He made charitable contributions to the February 1941 Foundation, a non-profit organization which honors Dutch people who helped Jews escape from Nazi barbarism during World War II.
[2] In Israel, he was the founder of the Arthur and Rosalinde Gilbert Center for the Advancement of Scientific Research and made donations to erect buildings on the campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
[10] Gilbert died of a heart attack on September 2, 2001, at his private residence in Beverly Hills, California.
[11] For example, it donated US$6 million to the Younes and Soraya Israel Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2006.