Vera Frances Bryce Salomons (1888-1969)  scion of a distinguished English Jewish family, built new immigrant shelters and provided homes for the elderly, donated to universities and social institutions, never discriminating against peoples or ethnicity. In a patriarchal world where kings and emperors built palaces for their wives and mistresses, Vera Salomons established the Islamic Museum, in memory of her beloved Professor Leon Arieh Mayer of the Hebrew University, for the study of Islamic Art and rapprochement between Jews and Arabs in Israel.