Yossi Sarid
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| Date of birth | 24 October 1940 |
| Place of birth | Rehovot, Mandatory Palestine |
| Date of death | 4 December 2015 (aged 75) |
| Knessets | 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1974–1984 | Alignment |
| 1984–1992 | Ratz |
| 1992–2006 | Meretz |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1992–1996 | Minister of the Environment |
| 1999–2000 | Minister of Education |
Yossi Sarid (Hebrew: יוסי שריד; 24 October 1940 – 4 December 2015) was an Israeli politician and news commentator. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006. A former Minister of Education and Minister of the Environment, he led Meretz between 1996 and 2003 and served as Leader of the Opposition from 2001 to 2003. Known for his determined moral stance and his willingness to pay the political price for that determination, Sarid was often referred to as Israel's moral compass.
Yosef (Yossi) Sarid was born in Rehovot, Sarid served in the Artillery Corps and as a Military Correspondent during his national service in the IDF. He earned an MA in political science from New School for Social Research in New York City. He was a resident of Margaliyot in the Upper Galilee.
Sarid was married to Dorit, with whom he had three children. He died on the evening of 4 December 2015 from an apparent heart attack.
Sarid worked as a media aide to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. He was first elected to the Knesset in 1973 on the Alignment list. He was re-elected in 1977, 1981 and 1984. After the Alignment agreed to join a national unity government with Likud in 1984, Sarid left the party on 22 October to join Shulamit Aloni's Ratz. He was re-elected on the Ratz list in 1988.
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