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Israel’s rich may not all have become much richer in the past year, but they’ve not all suffered too much either. Our local billionaires have long…

JOHANNESBURG — A 35-year-old American was shot and robbed Thursday while walking to his hotel but his life is not in danger, a police spokeswoman…

The Scottish explorer, David Livingstone, is believed to have been the first white man to view this magnificent curtain of falling water and he named…

Like his Bukharan ancestors who wandered the ancient Silk Road on camels and horses to make their living in trade, Shlomo Moussaieff, 86, is a master…

Shares in Africa Israel Investments Ltd., one of Israel's largest companies, have plummeted by one-third in two days after billionaire diamond baron…

Nedbank Ltd., a South African bank seeking $11 million in a bankruptcy petition against New York-based Fine Diamonds LLC, has sued Peykar…

As capitalism staggers through its first globalized economic crisis, the costs won't be measured only in dollars and cents. From newly rich Russia…

What odds for the uneducated son of an Uzbeki mohel (ritual circumciser), dealt a poor hand at birth, becoming Israel's wealthiest person and among…

ALL ROADS lead to Sderot these days. The president and the prime minister went there recently, as did the foreign minister, the defense minister, the…

The head of De Beers Group, which controls 40 percent of the global diamond trade, said Monday that the industry must develop new markets in China…

Lev Leviev, Israel's wealthiest man, has left Tel Aviv for the UK to avoid paying taxes in Israel, according to a British newspaper. Leviev, said to…

De Beers Group managing director Gareth Penny on Monday called on diamond traders in Europe, the US and Israel to back Africa's efforts to cut and…

NOTWITHSTANDING ONGOING press releases that Lev Leviev would be one of the speakers at the World Diamond Council meeting in Jerusalem last week,…

The diamond industry isn't doing enough to keep the gems out of the hands of criminals and terrorists, and must address pressing issues of child…

The current methodology, implementation and efficiency of the Kimberley Process method of screening so-called conflict diamonds came under harsh…

Sunday, April 29* THE UNIVERSITY of Haifa will host a two-day conference on the Six-Day War in which speakers will discuss the implications of the…

'JUNE IS Bustin' Out All Over," wrote Rogers and Hammerstein. The song's theme could very well apply to Hadassah of America's national president,…

MarketWatch: In-depth global business coverageWhat's at stake could be the first-ever futures market for diamond trading. It's impossible, say some…

The release of the Warner Brothers movie Blood Diamond is rocking the global diamond industry to the tune of a $15 million public relations campaign…

On a woman's finger, a diamond is all razzle-dazzle and shine. Before reaching its showcase potential, however, that diamond has traveled over…