Mesod Benady MBE (born 17 July 1930) is a Gibraltarian historian of Sephardic Jewish descent.
He currently lives in Grendon, Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom.
Benady was involved in local politics during the seventies; he contested the 1976 election, as an independent, and in the 1980 election, as a candidate of the Party for the Autonomy of Gibraltar, led by Joseph Triay; he defended positions of rapprochement with Spain.
In neither election was he successful.
Benady has specialised in the local and military history of Gibraltar and has also written about:
Sephardic Jews in general;
The Jewish communities in Gibraltar,
Malta
Menorca; and
The Royal Navy.In 2000 he was awarded an MBE after a proposal by the Government of Gibraltar for his services to local history.
In 1993 he founded a history journal published by the Gibraltar Heritage Trust.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, was one of the board members of the Friends of Gibraltar Heritage Society 1985-2013.
Benady was elected "Consejero de Honor" of the Centro de Estudios Campogibraltareños (English: Centre for Campo de Gibraltar Studies) and runs the publishing house Gibraltar Books Ltd., specialising in books about Gibraltar.