The United States Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, has visited the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum, duringa visit to the Israel Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan.

Shapiro was welcome to the museum by Yair Sahar, President of the Israel Diamond Exchange, and Eli Avidar, Managing Director of the Israel Diamond Institute, together with a number of dignitaries in the Israeli diamond sector.

As part of the tour of the diamond museum, Shapiro was given a detailed explanation of the journey that a diamond takes from the moment it is mined to when it is set in a piece of jewelry.