Summary
Netanya, a plantation town some 30 km north of Tel Aviv founded in 1929, which its chairman Oved Ben-Ami made the planned base of Palestine’s diamond industry from 1939 (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.42-43).
Details
- Ben-Ami envisioned Netanya as a model of capital-based Zionist urbanization on private initiative, with close relations with the British authorities and disengagement from neighboring Arab settlements (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.43).
- In 1939 Ben-Ami’s municipal fund guaranteed diamond manufacturers free land and factory space in return for building factories in Netanya and becoming its citizens (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.43).
- Map 1 of the book shows sorted diamonds distributed from London to Netanya and Tel Aviv (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.18).