Yoav
Yoav (Hebrew: יואב) is a male given name popular among Israeli Jews. Its popularity is attributed to both Joab (Hebrew: יוֹאָב), commander of King David's army in the Hebrew Bible, and Yitzhak Dubno, a 1940s Palmach soldier whose codename was Yoav.
Yoav is also the namesake of two Israeli settlements: Yoav Regional Council (including Sde Yoav, a kibbutz) in the Southern District, named after Yitzhak "Yoav" Dubno; and Givat Yoav, a moshav in the Golan Heights, named after Israeli soldier Yoav Shaham who died during the Samu incident.
Notable people with the name Yoav include:
Yoav Avni (born 1969), Israeli author
Yoav Bear (born 1991), Israeli cyclist
Yoav Benjamini (born 1949), Israeli statistician
Yoav Ben-Tzur (born 1958), Israeli politician and acting Minister of Health
Yoav Bruck (born 1972), Israeli swimmer
Yoav Chelouche (born 1953), Israeli businessman
Yoav Cohen (born 1999), Israeli windsurfer
Yoav Dothan (born 1955), Israeli chess player
Yoav Eliasi (born 1977), Israeli rapper
Yoav Eshed (born 1989), Israeli guitarist
Yoav Freund (born 1961), Israeli computer scientist
Yoav Gallant (born 1958), Israeli politician and Minister of Defense
Yoav Gath (born 1980), Israeli swimmer
Yoav Gelber (born 1943), Israeli historian
Yoav Gerafi (born 1993), Israeli footballer
Yoav Goren, American-Israeli musician
Yoav Har-Even, Israeli general
Yoav Hofmayster (born 2000), Israeli footballer
Yoav Horesh (born 1975), Israeli photographer
Yoav Kisch (born 1968), Israeli politician and Minister of Education
Yoav Kislev (1932-2017), Israeli agricultural economist
Yoav Kutner (born 1954), Israeli presenter
Yoav Landau, Israeli musician
Yoav Meiri (born 1975), Israeli swimmer
Yoav Mordechai (born 1964), Israeli general
Yoav Omer (born 1998), Israeli windsurfer
Yoav Potash, American-Israeli writer and filmmaker
Yoav Ra'anan (born 1928), Israeli diver
Yoav Reuveni (born 1985), Israeli model and actor
Yoav Sadan (born 1979), Israeli singer-songwriter
Yoav Saffar (born 1975), Israeli basketball player
Yoav Segalovitz (born 1959), Israeli politician
Yoav Shamir (born 1970), Israeli filmmaker
Yoav Shechtman (born 1980), Israeli physicist
Yoav Shoham (born 1956), American-Israeli computer scientist
Yoav Talmi (born 1953), Israeli composer and conductor
Yoav Yehoshua Weingarten (1845-1923), Polish rabbi
Yoav Ziv (born 1981), Israeli footballer
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