Moshe Schnitzer (Hebrew: משה שניצר; 1921 – August 16, 2007) was a Romanian Jewish immigrant to Israel who became a key player in the international diamond trade.

[3] Schnitzer learned sawing and cutting at Pickel's factory in Tel Aviv, where he became a work manager in 1944.

[4] In 1946 Schnitzer and Elhanan Halperin co-authored Diamonds (Yahalomim), an instruction book in Hebrew.

[5] Schnitzer also fought in the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary group that was seeking to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.

Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir both used Schnitzer to convey messages to the Soviet Union under the disguise of conducting diamond transactions.

[3] Under Indira Gandhi, India had been highly critical of Israel's policy, and public hostility persisted after her death in 1984.

It recognized his pivotal role in making Israel one of the main diamond manufacturing centers in the world.

[6] In May 2008, during the opening ceremony of the World Diamond Congress in Shanghai, he posthumously received the first-ever Diamantaire of the Year award.

He realized that our strength lay in our ability to complement one another, working together as an international network of colleagues, rather than as competitors.