Issawi Frej (Arabic: عيساوي فريج, Hebrew: עִיסָאוּוִי פְרֵיג'; born 14 December 1963) is an Arab-Israeli politician who served as a minister and was a member of the Knesset for Meretz in 2021 and was also an MK for the party between 2013 and 2019.

[1] His grandfather was killed in the Kafr Qasim massacre,[2] Frej is the eldest of twelve children.

[4][5] Frej first ran for the Knesset in 2003, and was placed sixteenth on the Meretz list for the elections that year.

In the 2009 elections, he was placed ninth,[8] but again failed to win a seat, as Meretz was reduced to three MKs.

[14][15] In November 2021, Frej met with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh to discuss the financial and security relationship between Israel and the West Bank; after this meeting, Frej predicted that the Palestinian Authority would agree to stop paying monthly stipends to those who have been convicted of terrorism and to the families of terrorists who have killed Israelis.