Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Issawi Frej, a member of the leftist Meretz party, was hospitalized Tuesday at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center Ichilov Hospital after he saying he felt unwell.
The minister, 58, apparently suffered a stroke. He is currently listed in stable condition.
A spokesperson for the hospital said Frej was admitted for further treatment and observation in the neurological intensive care unit (NICU).
Last week Frej slammed a report a week ago by Amnesty International that accused Israel of being an apartheid state, saying in a statement, “Israel has many problems that must be solved inside the Green Line and certainly in the ‘occupied territories’ but Israel is not an apartheid state.”
Frej is the second Muslim citizen in Israel to serve as a government minister. He lives with his wife and seven children in Kfar Qassem, where he was born.
