The story
The story of Diamond Israel
Every city has a founding story. This is ours — and it is still being written, one street at a time.
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Chapter 1The night it started
It was a Thursday night. Five friends from Haifa, Ashdod and Petah Tikva were playing on a foreign server, again explaining to someone that "Yalla" is not an insult. Somebody wrote in the group: "Why don't we just build our own city?" Everyone sent a laughing emoji. Nobody left the group.
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Chapter 2Why “Diamond”
Israel cuts some of the finest diamonds in the world, a few kilometres from where most of us grew up. A diamond is carbon that survived heat and pressure — and so are Israelis. The name stuck in one evening: Diamond Israel. The city itself got a name too: Diamond City.
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Chapter 3Choosing RAGE:MP
We tested every platform. RAGE Multiplayer won: it is fast, stable, and lets us write every system ourselves — from the bank to the phone. No copy-paste scripts, no borrowed cities. Everything you will touch in Diamond City is built for it.
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Chapter 4Hebrew on every corner
We re-imagined the map as an Israeli city. Rothschild Boulevard with its benches, Dizengoff with its traffic, a shuk that smells of fresh bourekas, the Namal port, the Ayalon at rush hour and a diamond exchange that glows at night. Every sign, every street, every menu speaks Hebrew — with English and Russian alongside.
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Chapter 5
An economy in shekels
Money in Diamond City is shekels, and it behaves like it. Salaries, rent, arnona, income tax, fuel at the price of gold and a bank that charges fees for breathing. If you get rich here, you earned it — legally or not.
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Chapter 6The people of the city
Diamond Police, Diamond Rescue, the municipality, the courts, the families in the port, the startup kids at the tech park and the guy at the kiosk who knows everything. Factions are being built together with the community, with real leaders and real stories.
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Chapter 7
Where we are today
The core is done, the city is standing and the factions are moving in. Next comes the closed beta for whitelisted players, and then the gates open. The group chat is a lot bigger now. Stay tuned — Diamond City is almost ready for you.
“We didn't want another server. We wanted a place that feels like home — with sirens.”