Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange Exclusive Insider Tour
Our unique tour of the Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange takes you on an exclusive visit inside the world’s largest diamond trading complex. This tour is not a visit to a gift shop or a museum, but an exclusive visit inside the high security and secretive Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange ‘bursa’, where around 15,000 diamond professionals and 1,000 related businesses trade with the world. Our exclusive and fascinating tour takes you inside a secretive world which even locals do not know exists. The tour is available daily, with pickup from hotels in Tel Aviv and Herzliya.
Tel Aviv diamond Exchange Tour Highlights
- Pickup from your hotel in Tel Aviv
- Arrive at the entrance to the Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange where you guide, a ‘member’ of the bursa will meet you and introduce you to this unique complex.
- Pass through security as you enter the largest and most secure diamond trading complex in the world. Attempts to replicate the Tel Aviv diamond exchange elsewhere in the world have been unsuccessful.
- Learn about the structure of the Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange, and the process of the global diamond trading industry.
- Tour the facilities of the Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange seeing the diamond trading floor, where dealers exchange and trade pieces daily
- See diamonds, learn about how they are classified and valued, and how to look at and appraise them
- This is not a tour to a gift shop, it is led by diamond professionals, however for those who wish to purchase diamonds at wholesale prices (50% lower than retailers will sell these diamonds), there will be an opportunity
- Return to your hotel
Tour Itinerary
This is a private tour so start times can be adjusted although we suggest starting the tour between 10:00-14:00 in order to see the entire Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange in operation. Tour duration is approximately 3 hours.
- Pickup from your hotel in Tel Aviv. Transfer to the Diamond Exchange which is just a few minutes from the city, in Ramat Gan
- Pass through security and tour the Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange’s extensive facilities including the trading floor
- Sit with a diamond expert and learn how a diamond is valued and classified
- Return to your hotel in Tel Aviv.
Important Information
- Tour of the Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange is available on Sundays through Thursdays, during trading hours (9am-5pm).
- In special cases, tours out of these hours, or on Fridays or Saturdays can be arranged, although the full facilities of the exchange are not in operation
- For those who wish to purchase diamonds, this will be possible during the tour.
- Tour is available in English, Chinese, Russian and other languages on request.
- Tour price includes transportation from your hotel to the complex and back, and tour of the Diamond Exchange led by a certified ‘member’ of the Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange. There are only a limited number of ‘members’, who must be active in the industry for an extensive time period before being accepted.
