Index: Organizations, D

• De Beers — The monopolistic diamond-mining cartel whose London DTC allocated rough diamonds and whose interests intertwined with British colonial policy.
• Decolonizing Architecture — Petti, Hilal and Weizman’s project of strategic architectural propositions for Palestine, including re-occupation of emptied settlements, in Lambert.
• Democratic Front for Peace and Equality — Hadash, the Rakah-led front dominating Palestinian electoral politics in Israel from 1977.
• Democratic Movement for Change — Yigael Yadin’s reformist movement whose fifteen seats in 1977, won primarily at Labor’s expense, put the Likud in a position to form a government, in Dowty’s account.
• Department of Diamond Control — Diamond-control authority established under Minhelet Haam in April 1948 by Albert Ehrenfeld and Jacob van Amerongen, incorporated into Israel’s Department of Trade and Industry in May 1948.
• Diamond Club — Tel Aviv’s Diamond Club (Mo’adon Hayahalom, est. 1937), the licensing and organizing body of Palestine’s early diamond trade.
• Diamond Control Board — The Diamond Control Board (DCB), established by the Palestine government in August 1943 to formalize British control of the diamond industry as supply switched from Sand to Melees.
• Diamond Inquiry Committee (1945) — Government inquiry committee (Walsh, Fletcher, Watts) established 22 August 1945 whose December 1945 report recommended the diamond industry’s eventual freedom from all control.
• Diamond Traders Association — Body of Jewish diamond dealers (58 licensed exporters in summer 1945) pressing for free trade severed from PDMA control.
• Diamond Trading Company — De Beers’s London sole selling agency (est. 1934), the single authorized source of rough diamonds for Palestine from April 1940.
• Diamond Workers’ Supreme Committee — The Supreme Committee (Ha-Vaad Ha-Elion), the nonaffiliated diamond workers’ organization established in early 1941, opposed to the politically affiliated unions.
• Diamond Workers’ Union — The Histadrut’s Diamond Workers’ Union (DWO), established November 1941 to campaign for collective bargaining in the diamond industry.
• Director of Security of the Defense Establishment — Ministry of Defense department whose declassification teams order archives to vault documents without legal authority, on the Akevot Institute’s research.
• Druze — The religious community whose 500 ALA volunteers deserted to the Jewish forces in April 1948 and became the main vehicle for the cleansing of the Galilee, in Pappe’s account.