Summary
Akiva Weiss (1868-1947), clockmaker and trader in precious stones and one of the founders of Tel Aviv, who ran the Diamond Club from its establishment in November 1937 (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.41).
Details
- Under his leadership the Diamond Club, with forty members in 1938, made Tel Aviv the first diamond center in Palestine and the locus of pressure on the British authorities to reduce customs on rough diamonds (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.41-42).
- He led, with Nachum Tishby, the Tishby-Weiss camp that advocated a national-liberal organization of the industry under Zionist institutions, against Oved Ben-Ami’s Netanya-based scheme (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.47-48).