Sar­it Yishai-Levi is a renowned Israeli jour­nal­ist and author. In 2016 she pub­lished her first book, The Beau­ty Queen of Jerusalem. It imme­di­ate­ly became a best­seller and gar­nered crit­i­cal acclaim. The book sold more than three hun­dred thou­sand copies in Israel, was trans­lat­ed into ten lan­guages, and was adapt­ed into a TV series that won the Israeli TV award for best dra­ma series. It also won the Pub­lish­ers Association’s Gold, Plat­inum, and Dia­mond prizes; the Steimatzky Prize for best­selling book of the year in Israel; and the WIZO France Prize for best book trans­lat­ed into French.

Yishai-Levi’s sec­ond book, The Woman Beyond the Sea, was pub­lished in 2019. It won the Pub­lish­ers Association’s Gold and Plat­inum prizes and was adapt­ed for tele­vi­sion by Netflix.

Yishai-Levi was born in Jerusalem to a Sephardic fam­i­ly that has lived in the city for eight gen­er­a­tions. She’s been liv­ing with her fam­i­ly in Tel Aviv since 1970.