Yishai Sarid

Yishai Sarid was born in 1965 in Tel Aviv

Yishai Sarid was born in Tel Aviv in 1965 to Dorit and Yossi Sarid, a politician and journalist. From 1974 to 1977 he lived with his family in Kiryat Shmona. He later attended Ironi Hey High School in Tel Aviv.

He joined the army in 1983 and served as an intelligence officer. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in 1999 earned a master's degree in public administration at Harvard University.

From 1994 to 1997 he prosecuted criminal cases for the Tel Aviv District Attorney. In 2002 he opened his own practice, working mainly in civil, commercial and administrative law, and he also serves as an arbitrator. His clients included the family of soldier Oron Shaul and children of Filipino origin facing deportation.

Sarid has published 9 novels, translated into several languages. Limassol won a French crime fiction prize, The Third won the Bernstein Prize and Vulnerabilities won the Brenner Prize. The Memory Monster was adapted for the stage at Habima.

He was placed on the Meretz list in 2019 and joined the government naming committee in 2022. He later resigned from it in protest against government policy. He is married to Dr. Racheli Sion-Sarid and they have 3 children.