Israeli Jews
Israeli Jews or Jewish Israelis ( ) comprise Israel's largest ethnic and religious community. The core of their demographic consists of those with a Jewish identity and their descendants, including ethnic Jews and religious Jews alike. Appr ...
. Its popularity is attributed to both
Joab
Joab (; ), the son of Zeruiah, was the nephew of King David and the commander of his army according to the Hebrew Bible.
Name
The name Joab is, like many other Hebrew names, theophoric—derived from Yahweh (), the name of the God of Israel, ...
(), commander of
King David
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...
Palmach
The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Phalanges/Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the Haganah, the paramilitary organization of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of th ...
soldier whose codename was Yoav.
Yoav is also the namesake of two Israeli settlements:
Yoav Regional Council
Yoav Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Yoav'') is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel. It is located near the cities of Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon. It was founded in 1952, covering an area of 230,000 dunams (23 ...
(including
Sde Yoav
Sde Yoav (, ''lit.'' Yoav's Field) is a kibbutz in southcentral Israel. Located between the cities of Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
Kibbut ...
, a
kibbutz
A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...
Givat Yoav
Givat Yoav () is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav, located in the Golan Heights. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes thi ...
, a
moshav
A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...
in the
Golan Heights
The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria. It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in t ...
, named after Israeli soldier Yoav Shaham who died during the
Samu incident
The 1966 attack on Samu, codenamed by Israel as Operation Shredder, was a large cross-border assault on 13 November 1966 by the Israeli military on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu. It was the largest Israeli military operat ...
.
Notable people with the name Yoav include:
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Yoav Avni
Yoav Avni (; born November 24, 1969) is a prominent Israeli author and translator. His books ''HaHamishit Shel Chong Levi'' (Chong Levi's Fifth) and ''Herzl Amar'' (Herzl Said) have earned him national recognition and both received the Geffen A ...
(born 1969), Israeli author
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Yoav Bear
Yoav Bear (; born June 24, 1991, in Haifa) is an Israeli former professional cyclist.
Major results
;2011
: National Road Championships
::1st Under-23 road race
::1st Under-23 time trial
::2nd Road race
::2nd Time trial
: 1st Overall Apple ...
(born 1991), Israeli cyclist
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Yoav Benjamini
Yoav Benjamini (; born 5 January 1949) is an Israeli statistician best known for the development (with Yosef Hochberg) of the false discovery rate (FDR) criterion and the Benjamini–Hochberg (BH) and Benjamini–Yekutieli (BY) procedures for ...
(born 1949), Israeli statistician
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Yoav Ben-Tzur
Rabbi Yoav Ben-Tzur (; born 11 June 1958) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Shas and as a Minister in the Ministry of Labor. Ben-Tzur previously served as the acting Minister of Health between January ...
(born 1958), Israeli politician and acting Minister of Health
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Yoav Bruck
Yoav Bruck (; born March 6, 1972, in moshav Lakhish) in the northern Negev in south-central Israel, is a former Israeli swimmer, who competed in three Summer Olympics for his native country, in the years 1992, 1996, and 2000. In Olympic competi ...
(born 1972), Israeli swimmer
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Yoav Chelouche
Yoav Z. Chelouche () is an Israeli businessman, a managing partner of Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm Aviv Venture Capital. From 1995 to 2001, Chelouche was CEO and president of Scitex Corporation.
He is on the board of directors of the Tel ...
(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 (musician), 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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