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Moshe Schnitzer (1921 – August 16, 2007) was a Romanian Jewish immigrant to Israel who became a key player in the international diamond trade. From 1967 to 1993 he was President of the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE), which became the world's largest diamond exchange. ==Early years== Schnitzer was born in Chernowitz, then in Romania, in 1921.〔 He emigrated to the British Mandate for Palestine in 1934, and studied history and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1942, pushed by his father, he entered the diamond business.〔 He left university to work in a diamond polishing plant only under protest.〔 Schnitzer learned sawing and cutting at Pickel's factory in Tel Aviv, where he became a work manager in 1944. In 1945 he and Shlomo Vinikov founded the ''Society for the Development of the Diamond Industry in Palestine''. He was editor of ''Hayahalom'' (''The Diamond''), the diamond industry's journal. In 1946 Schnitzer and Elhanan Halperin co-authored an instruction book on ''Diamonds'' in Hebrew. Schnitzer also fought in the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary group that was seeking to establish the state of Israel. The connections he made there with future leaders helped him later in his business life.〔 In 1947 he was one of the founders of the Israel Diamond Exchange.〔 Schnitzer and a partner launched the firm of Schnitzer-Greenstein in 1952. In 1960 he opened his own firm, M. Schnitzer & Co., with his son Shmuel Schnitzer and son-in-law Shai Schnitzer.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moshe Schnitzer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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