In some of the more well-to-do households, there was a coffee grinder:
Coffee beans were placed in the upper compartment.
Inside, in the center, there were two rotating blades that ground the beans.
The ground coffee would then fall into the lower compartment.

Asa Bartov from Moshav Herut tells about his father, Shlomo Gutman.
Those were days of shortage and austerity, but Shlomo Gutman would never give up on good coffee!!!
"Achat de bonne café" (“buy good coffee”), he used to say.
As the moshav’s secretary and “minister of foreign affairs,” he would travel to the big city — Tel Aviv — bring back high-quality coffee beans, and grind them at home in his coffee grinder.