Summary
Asher Daskal (1908-1990), Romanian-born diamond manufacturer who learned polishing in Antwerp and, with Zvi Rosenberg, opened the first cutting workshops in Tel Aviv and Petah Tikva in early 1937 (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.40).
Details
- In March 1940 Daskal was the emissary of the Tishby-Weiss camp in Antwerp, working in parallel to Oved Ben-Ami’s rival recruitment trip (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.49).