Remez is an Israeli journalist and an analyst on post-Soviet affairs He is a fellow of the Harry South. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a recipient, joint with Isabella Ginor, of the 2008 Book Prized (Silver Medal) by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy for the book Foxbats over Dimona.
In 1993 he received also the Nahum Sokolov Award ("Israeli Pulitzer Prize”) for broadcast journalism. In 1999 he received the Joint Distribution Committee’s Boris Smolar Award for coverage of Israel-Diaspora relations. In 2000 he received the honorable mention in the B"nai B"rith Wolf Matsdorf Journalism Awards.