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Yishai Sarid ( ) is an Israeli author, novelist and lawyer.1His second book, Limassol , became an international best-seller. His fourth book, The Third , became a major subject of public and literary discussion in Israel and won the Bernstein literary award. His fifth book, The memory monster , was included on the New York Times list of 100 notable books of 2020. Sarid works also as an attorney, formerly as a public prosecutor and now privately. 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.2
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Yishai Sarid ( ) is an Israeli author and novelist. His second book, Limassol, became a best-seller, the book became particularly popular after the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in 2010. Sarid works full-time as an attorney, formerly as a public prosecutor and now privately.
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Yishai Sarid ( ) is an Israeli author, novelist and lawyer.His second book, Limassol , became an international best-seller.His fourth book, The Third , became a major subject of public and literary discussion in Israel and won the Bernstein literary award. Sarid works full-time as an attorney, formerly as a public prosecutor and now privately.
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Israeli author, novelist and lawyer (born 1965) Yishai Sarid ( Hebrew : ישי שריד ; born 1965) is an Israeli author, novelist and lawyer.
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israeli author and novelist
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israeli author
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