A young jeweler from Bnei Brak this past week found a bag of diamonds worth $200,000 and returned them to their owner.

A bag with the diamonds was found at the diamond exchange in Ramat Gan last Thursday. A veteran jeweler had lost the bag near the diamond exchange.

“It was not our diamonds and we were not insured,” the son of the veteran diamond merchant said.

The young resident of Bnei Brak who found the bag said that the “transparent bag was on the floor,” and he immediately picked it up and saw that it contained diamonds. He brought it right to the legal department at the exchange and, together with members of the exchange, he examined the diamonds and assessed their value.

“It’s the education I received growing up,” he said, explaining on his decision to return the valuables immediately. “I didn’t think for a moment to keep it. I was brought up that we do not take anything that does not belong to us.”

When the veteran diamond dealer approached the exchange and related that he had lost a bag of diamonds, he was informed – to his shock – that the bag had indeed been found and returned.

“I never thought I’d get the diamonds back,” he said. “The person who returned it is a righteous man. I did not believe there were such people. I am pleasantly surprised.”

{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}