Summary
Chaim Friedman, a former Antwerpian diamond merchant and Zionist activist who became the administrative secretary of the Palestine Diamond Manufacturers’ Association on its establishment in 1940 (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.66).
Details
- With Oved Ben-Ami he drew the draft of the PDMA’s regulations, advised by diamond experts such as Zvi Rosenberg and Asher Daskal and by the PDMA’s “Responsible Directors” (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.66).
- He was a member, with Ben-Ami and the customs official Fletcher, of the government-nominated Control Committee of Rough and Polished Diamonds in Palestine (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.66).
- As administrative secretary he functioned also as Ben-Ami’s personal assistant, and together they led what many considered a “dictatorship” of the PDMA (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.77-78).