Guy Freeman, Editor#
Asians in Israel is independently operated by Guy Freeman, a long-time resident of Israel who started the site to fill a gap nobody else was filling: a single English-and-Hebrew source for everything from Thai farmworker labour rights to where to buy Hong Kong-style fish balls in Holon.
The site has covered Israel’s Asian communities since 2024. Editorial decisions, restaurant reviews, embassy news, the business directory — all curated by one person, with named community contributors where they appear.
What I cover personally#
- Restaurants and groceries — I visit, eat, photograph
- Embassy and government news — I read the source documents (Hebrew, English) before writing
- Community profiles — interviews and on-the-ground reporting
- The directory — listings I have either visited or verified by phone
What I do not do#
- Mechanical rewrites of other outlets’ news stories
- Auto-translated machine content (Hebrew translations are mine; for Japanese, Korean, Chinese I only translate when the content is specifically for that community)
- Anonymous bylines or “editorial team” personas
Get in touch#
- Email: guy@asiansinisrael.com
- Telegram channel: @aainewbot
- Community forum: community.asiansinisrael.com
Contributing#
If you live in Israel and have direct knowledge of an Asian community here — Thai workers, Korean students, Filipino caregivers, mainland Chinese tech workers, Vietnamese restaurant operators, anyone — I’d like to hear from you. Bylines are credited to you, not folded under a generic site identity.