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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
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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
* Yoav Bruck (born 1972), Israeli swimmer
* Yoav Chelouche (born 1953), Israeli businessman
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Yoav Cohen
Yoav Cohen (; born 30 August 1999) is an Israeli windsurfer. In 2020 he won the RS:X European Championships, and In 2021 he represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics and finished 4th in Men's RS:X.
Biography
His parents are Hananel and ...
(born 1999), Israeli windsurfer
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Yoav Dothan
Yoav Dothan (; born 1955) is an Israeli chess player who holds the chess title of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster. He was the Israeli champion of correspondence chess for the 1997 championship and the winner of the Finland Jubilee 40 ...
(born 1955), Israeli chess player
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Yoav Eliasi
Yoav Eliasi (; born November 22, 1977), commonly known by his stage name The Shadow (, ''Ha-Tzel''), is an Israeli rapper, blogger, and right-wing political activist. He was part of the roster of artists on the label TACT Records.
According to H ...
(born 1977), Israeli rapper
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Yoav Eshed
Yoav Eshed (; born April 28, 1989) is a jazz guitarist and composer based in Brooklyn, New York.
Yoav started to play the piano at the age of 3 and played Haydn, Bach and Mendelssohn. He picked up the guitar at the age of 13.
Biography Ear ...
(born 1989), Israeli guitarist
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Yoav Freund
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Yoav Freund (; born 1961) is an Israeli professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego who mainly works on machine learning, probability theory and related fields and applications.
He is an alumnus of the Hebr ...
(born 1961), Israeli computer scientist
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Yoav Gallant
Yoav Gallant (; born 8 November 1958) is an Israeli politician and former military officer who served as Ministry of Defense (Israel), minister of defense between 2022 and 2024. Gallant was an officer in the Southern Command (Israel), Southern ...
(born 1958), Israeli politician and Minister of Defense
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Yoav Gath
Yoav Gath (; born November 8, 1980) is an Olympic and national-record backstroke swimmer from Israel. He swam for Israel at the 2000 Olympics.
Biography
Yoav Gath was born in Haifa. He trained at Hapoel Kiryat-Tivon swimming club coached by And ...
(born 1980), Israeli swimmer
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Yoav Gelber
Yoav Gelber (; born September 25, 1943) is a professor of history at the University of Haifa, and was formerly a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
He was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1943 and studied world and Jewish his ...
(born 1943), Israeli historian
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Yoav Gerafi
Yoav Pini Gerafi (sometimes Jarafi or Jerafi, ; born 29 August 1993) is an Israeli footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Israeli Premier League club Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israel national team.
Early life
Gerafi was born in Tel Mond, Isr ...
(born 1993), Israeli footballer
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Yoav Goren
Yoav Goren () is an Israeli-American musician, composer, and record producer specializing in soundtracks and trailer music for films and television series. He was one of the founders of Immediate Music, 1 Revolution Music, and Imperativa Records.
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, American-Israeli musician
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Yoav Har-Even
Maj. Gen.(ret.) Yoav Har-Even () was president and CEO of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
Before joining Rafael in 2015, he served as head of the Israel Defense Forces Operations Directorate. Prior to that, he was commander of the 319th Di ...
, Israeli general
* Yoav Hofmayster (born 2000), Israeli footballer
* Yoav Horesh (born 1975), Israeli photographer
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Yoav Kisch
Yoav Kisch (; born 6 December 1968) is an Israeli politician. Previously a military and then civil pilot, he served as a member of the Knesset for Likud from 2015 to 2023 and has been Minister of Education since December 2022. He also held the ...
(born 1968), Israeli politician and Minister of Education
* Yoav Kislev (1932-2017), Israeli agricultural economist
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Yoav Kutner
Yoav Kutner (; born 18 May 1954) is an Israeli music editing, editor, TV and radio presenter, who has significantly promoted performers ranging from Mashina to Radiohead.
Life
Yoav Kutner was born in Jerusalem, Israel. Kutner lives and works in ...
(born 1954), Israeli presenter
* Yoav Landau, Israeli musician
* Yoav Meiri (born 1975), Israeli swimmer
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Yoav Mordechai
Yoav "Poli" Mordechai (; born March 25, 1964) is a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces.
Early life and education
Mordechai has a master's degree of government and politics and additional master's degree in National Security studi ...
(born 1964), Israeli general
* Yoav Omer (born 1998), Israeli windsurfer
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Yoav Potash
Yoav Potash is an American writer and filmmaker whose works include the documentaries '' Crime After Crime'' and '' Food Stamped''.
Movies
Potash produced and directed the film ''Crime After Crime'', about the legal battle to free Deborah Pe ...
, 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
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Yoav Shamir Yoav Shamir (), is an Israeli documentary filmmaker most noted for the films ''Checkpoint (2003 film), Checkpoint'' and ''Defamation (film), Defamation''.
Personal life
Yoav Shamir was born in Tel Aviv in 1970. A ninth-generation Israeli from Tel ...
(born 1970), Israeli filmmaker
* Yoav Shechtman (born 1980), Israeli physicist
* Yoav Shoham (born 1956), American-Israeli computer scientist
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Yoav Talmi
Yoav Talmi (; born April 28, 1943), is an Israeli Conductor (music), conductor and composer.
Biography
Yoav Talmi was born in Kibbutz Merhavia (kibbutz), Merhavia. He studied Musical composition, composition and orchestral direction, first in ...