Esawi Frej

Can Israel’s marine agriculture feed the world’s future?

Reps. from 25 countries and a bevy of Israeli marine agriculture start-ups gathered to highlight innovative solutions to traditional agriculture’s shortcomings in the face of climate change.

 The Sea the Future summit.
  Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej.

‘Israel is my state and the Palestinians are my people' - interview with Esawi Frej

ARAB-ISRAELIS ATTEND a 2006 ceremony in Kafr Kassem memorializing 49 Arab-Israelis killed by Israel Police for allegedly violating curfew during the 1956 war. The memoir notes the author’s involvement in the commission that probed police actions.

IDF releases court documents from Kafr Kassem massacre

 Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, waits outside the Kedma Hotel, the location of "The Negev Summit," attended by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the Foreign Ministers of Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt in Sde Boker, Israel, March 28, 2022

Moroccan foreign minister to visit Israel in September


Two political bombshells: Steinitz and Frej leaving their parties

The departures of Steinitz and Frej represent the direction their political parties are heading — and both are going the wrong way.

 Minister Yuval Steinitz arrives to the weekly government meeting at the Prime Ministers office in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2017.

Yair Golan, former IDF general, says he will run for Meretz chairmanship

"I will run in order to build a proud, strong, Zionist Left, that fights for Israel's character and future," Golan said.

Yair Golan

Esawi Frej leaves Meretz ahead of elections

Frej announced that he had decided to take a break from the Knesset, but not from public life.

Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej.

Frej visits Kosovar children in Israel getting life-saving treatment

The two children, Anisa and Florim, were both born with a congenital heart disease that can't be treated in Kosovo.

 Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej meeting Anisa and Florim, two children who were brought from Kosovo to Israel by Save a Child's Heart to undergo life-saving cardiac care at Wolfson Hospital.

In first for an Israeli minister, Esawi Frej visits Kosovo

Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej will meet with a series of senior officials in Kosovo, including the prime minister and foreign minister.

 Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej visiting Kosovo, April 12, 2022.

How the Regional Cooperation Ministry can advance Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking - opinion

With the appointment of Regional Cooperation Minister Meretz Esawi Frej, the ministry has an opportunity to positively influence Israeli-Palestinian relations and contribute to peacemaking efforts.

Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej.

Why is an Israeli minister fundraising for the Palestinians? - opinion

Even the donor countries in Europe and the Arab world have grown weary of watching their investment in the PA squandered by its corrupt leadership, rather than put to proper use.

 Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej at the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting in Oslo, November 17, 2021.

Israel won't thwart two states, minister tells int'l parley on Palestinians

"My dream is to see my country in peace with my people," Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej told an international donor parley in Oslo.

 Participants of Wednesday's Ad Hoc Liaison Committee in Oslo

Israel to ask donor countries to restore payments to Palestinians

Donor countries will be asked to restore financial contributions to the PA as it faces an acute financial crisis.

 A child waves a flag as demonstrators take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, in Ramallah in the West Bank September 8, 2021.

Knesset votes down Kafr Kassem memorial bill

The 1956 Kafr Kassem massacre resulted in the death of 48 Arab Israelis at the hands of Israeli Border Police.

 View of the Israeli-Arab town of Kfar Kassem, near Tel Aviv. July 02, 2013.

14 Days: Royal Meeting

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

 Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meeting Bahrain’s King Hamid bin Issa al-Khalifa at the royal palace in Manama, September 30, 2021.