Summary
Nachum Tishby, head of the Department of Trade and Industry of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, who led with Akiva Weiss the national-liberal camp for organizing Palestine’s diamond industry (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.47).
Details
- Tishby and Dr Emil Schmorak lobbied Zionist Organization offices in Johannesburg, Antwerp and London in winter 1940 to secure rough diamond supply and recognition for Palestine (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.48).
- In February 1940 Tishby and the Jewish Agency organized the Tel Aviv diamond experts and entrepreneurs as a section in the Agency’s Trade and Industry Department (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.49).