Summary
Heinrich (Chaim) Goldmann (1882-1974), Hungarian-born diamond manufacturer trained in Antwerp from 1905, who opened a Tel Aviv diamond factory in 1937 in which many of Palestine’s first diamond workers were apprenticed (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.40).
Details
- Goldmann studied mining engineering in Germany; in 1907 he joined Jean Fisher in proposing to the Ottoman representative in Brussels that a diamond industry be established in Palestine, and after rejection opened factories in Antwerp and later Vienna (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.40).
- He immigrated to Palestine in 1934 (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.40).