Yoav () is a male given name popular among
Israeli Jews. Its popularity is attributed to both
Joab (), commander of
King David's army in the
Hebrew Bible, and
Operation Yoav, 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:
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Yoav Avni (born 1969), Israeli author
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Yoav Bear (born 1991), Israeli cyclist
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Yoav Benjamini (born 1949), Israeli statistician
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Yoav Ben-Tzur (born 1958), Israeli politician and acting Minister of Health
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Yoav Bruck (born 1972), Israeli swimmer
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Yoav Chelouche (born 1953), Israeli businessman
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Yoav Cohen (born 1999), Israeli windsurfer
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Yoav Dothan (born 1955), Israeli chess player
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Yoav Eliasi (born 1977), Israeli rapper
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Yoav Eshed (born 1989), Israeli guitarist
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Yoav Freund (born 1961), Israeli computer scientist
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Yoav Gallant (born 1958), Israeli politician and Minister of Defense
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Yoav Gath (born 1980), Israeli swimmer
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Yoav Gelber (born 1943), Israeli historian
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Yoav Gerafi (born 1993), Israeli footballer
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Yoav Goren, American-Israeli musician
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Yoav Har-Even, Israeli general
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Yoav Hofmayster (born 2000), Israeli footballer
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Yoav Horesh (born 1975), Israeli photographer
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Yoav Kisch (born 1968), Israeli politician and Minister of Education
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Yoav Kislev (1932-2017), Israeli agricultural economist
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Yoav Kutner (born 1954), Israeli presenter
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Yoav Landau, Israeli musician
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Yoav Meiri (born 1975), Israeli swimmer
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Yoav Mordechai (born 1964), Israeli general
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Yoav Omer (born 1998), Israeli windsurfer
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Yoav Potash, American-Israeli writer and filmmaker
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Yoav Ra'anan (born 1928), Israeli diver
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Yoav Reuveni (born 1985), Israeli model and actor
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Yoav Sadan (born 1979), Israeli singer-songwriter
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Yoav Saffar (born 1975), Israeli basketball player
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Yoav Segalovitz (born 1959), Israeli politician
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Yoav Shamir (born 1970), Israeli filmmaker
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Yoav Shechtman (born 1980), Israeli physicist
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Yoav Shoham (born 1956), American-Israeli computer scientist
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Yoav Talmi (born 1953), Israeli composer and conductor
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Yoav Yehoshua Weingarten (1845-1923), Polish rabbi
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Yoav Ziv (born 1981), Israeli footballer
