Jonathan (Yonatan) Yavin (Hebrew: יונתן יבין; born June 17, 1972), is an Israeli author of 18 books,[1] for children, young adults and fiction.

During his twenties he worked as a journalist in local media and as a copywriter in advertising agencies in Jerusalem, while studying for his bachelor's degree in philosophy and comparative literature at The Hebrew University.

His 2nd children book, Pumpkin the Kitten (He'chatool Dla'at) had major commercial success: It was voted for the Israeli board of Education "Book Parade" both for kindergartens and grades 1–3, translated into Arabic by the Centre for the Arab Child's Literature in Israel and was included in the board of Education's "Bookshelf" initiative, thus distributed in over 50,000 copies to schools and kindergartens in the country.

[11] In May 2024 Jonathan Yavin published his most recent children's book, Rona's Moving Out, about a girl who decides to look for a better family and tries living at her upstairs neighbour's.

[14] Following this novel came The Misanthropist, a comic thriller taking place in the Tel-Aviv theater scene and Loyal to None but Himself, in which a deafening radio star is fired from his station and gets involved with a forensics expert and his mysterious wife.

This novel was received exceptionally well, critics describing it as "brilliant",[15] "an upbeat, sexy and funny entertainment"[16] and "a spicey story, extremely well-built".