Born 69 years ago in the northern Israeli town of Afula, Mr. Meirov made his way into the diamond industry at age 23, when he accepted an offer to learn the business from his uncle, Amnon Rachaminov, who was diamantaire in Belgium. Newly married, he traveled to Antwerp in 1975.

In 1977, his uncle asked him to establish the company’s office in New York, and he agreed, requesting that his brother Yossi be brought into the business in Belgium. But, after three years on 47th Street, he decided it was time to establish his own independent operation, moving with his family to Los Angeles, where he set up a trading office supplied with polished diamonds by his uncle.

In 1990, he established a company with Yossi, with him running the American office in Los Angeles, and his brother the Belgian office in Antwerp. The venture flourished, but 1994 he decided that the time was right to return home, so that his children could build their families and careers in Israel. The office in California would become a branch of the business he would reestablish in Ramat Gan.

In 2000 he entered into a partnership with Lev Leviev and David Elishayov. Called LID, the new company quickly developed into Israel’s largest diamond exporter, and one of the most prominent diamond manufacturers and traders worldwide.

But he remained to inclined work within a family setting. “I want to have them all alongside me, all the time,” he said, “united both in work and in life.” Thus, after five years with LID he split off, creating, Meirov International Diamonds with his brother Yossi. It is what is known today at MID House of Diamonds.