[1] Asher Anshel Daskal was born in Moisei, a small village in the Maramureș county in north Romania.
In Belgium, with the help and support of his relatives he started to work as an apprentice for a diamond cutter and later on he learned how to polish and how to cleave.
In 1932 after saving enough money, he bought a ticket and sailed to British Mandate Palestine as a tourist, to visit the first Maccabiah Games (the Jewish Olympics).
In Antwerp, Daskal joined a cooperative that intended to found an Israeli diamond industry in the Holy Land, but as he didn't approve of their business plans and quit.
He boarded the ship with his wife Miriam, his Baby girl and his diamond manufacturing equipment with final destination Land of Israel.
In 1939 The cousins were offered by Oved Ben-Ami Netanya city mayor, to relocate to his town and establish new diamond plants.
They were getting ready to open their first factory Ofir but last minute Anshel backed up from their partnership and later that year he founded Even Hayesod plant in Netanya.
After World War II ended there was a big crisis in the diamond industry and in 1946 Daskal closed his plant.
In late 2020 producer Nicole Starrett from Jubilee production (Los Angeles) came on board to help develop the project June 30th 2022 was a commemoration ceremony for Daskal at the Israeli Diamond Exchange center where they dedicated the weigh room in the main trade hall to his name.