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 (including Sde Yoav, 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 ...
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
* 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
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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
* 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
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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
* 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
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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 ...