Summary
A prominent Jerusalem lawyer who served as the legal expert on the Diamond Control Board’s inquiry subcommittee into the Palestine Diamond Manufacturers’ Association in 1944 (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.158).
Details
- Horowitz had been situated for many years at the juncture of the ties between the government and the Yishuv, and served on the subcommittee as the legal expert on the PDMA and on the Ottoman Law of Associations under which the PDMA operated (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.158).
- With Fletcher and David Andreson, he sat on the three-member subcommittee appointed by DCB chair Geoffrey Walsh in winter 1944; after three months of testimonies and deliberations (March-May 1944) its report reinstated Oved Ben-Ami while recommending a more democratic PDMA structure (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.158-159).
- Chapter 4 note 67 gives his biography: Solomon Shalom Horowitz (1880–1956) arrived in Palestine in 1922 and joined the law firm of British barrister Harry Sacker, and from 1929 ran the firm; he was one of the more active lawyers in Jerusalem, and many of his clients were British companies and Zionist institutions (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.309).