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The diamond industry of Israel is an important world player in producing cut diamonds for wholesale. In 2010, Israel became the chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme . [ 1 ] As of 2016 [update] , cut diamonds constituted 23.2% of Israel's total exports and they were the country's biggest export product, amounting to 12% of the ...
In 1986 Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum was opened at the Israel Diamond Exchange center. Anshel lent that very first diamond to the museum for a display. The first diamond was on display for a few years and was known as being "Daskal's diamond". With the museum closing the diamond was returned to Anshel's family in 2021.
Beny Steinmetz was born in 1956 in Netanya, Israel and is the fourth child of Rubin Steinmetz, a pioneer of the diamond trade. [5] At the age of 21, after serving three years in the IDF, Steinmetz emigrated from Israel to Belgium, to the famous diamond hub, Antwerp. [6] Today Steinmetz lives in Israel with his wife Agnes and their four children ...
Israel's long-term credit rating is being downgraded by S&P, which cited the risk of military escalation with Iran. ... S&P's will issue another ratings review for the country on the date it was ...
Finland (2015), Israel (2019) Simon Leviev ( Hebrew : סיימון לבייב ; born Shimon Yehuda Hayut , 27 September 1990) is an Israeli businessman convicted of forgery and fraud. According to The Times of Israel , between 2017 and 2019 he allegedly conned an estimated $1 billion dollars from people and banks in a Ponzi scheme .
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Israel’s credit rating from A1 to A2, also still investment grade, in February. Moody’s said the primary driver of its decision was an “assessment that ...
Basel Adra, one of the documentary’s two principal subjects, has spent his entire life in Masafer Yatta, growing up with friends and family, and resisting Israel’s occupation of their land.
The scheme came under further criticism from Global Witness and Partnership Africa Canada [57] in June 2010 after the Kimberley Monitor appointed to review diamond mining conditions in Zimbabwe recommended that the country be allowed to sell diamonds as conflict-free [59] from its contested Marange diamond fields in Chiadzwa.