Yishai Sarid (Hebrew: ישי שריד; born 1965) is an Israeli author, novelist and lawyer.

[2] Sarid has a Public Administration master's degree (MPA) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1999).

In 1994-1997 he worked for the Government as an Assistant District Attorney in Tel-Aviv, prosecuting criminal cases.

[1] In 2011 Sarid won the Grand Prix de litterature policiere in France for "Limassol".

In 2023 Sarid won the Levi Eshkol Prize for Hebrew writers, and announced he would donate it to The Israeli-Palestinian Parents Circle-Families Forum.