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
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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
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Yoav Hofmayster
Yoav Hofmayster (; born 25 December 2000) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Korona Kielce and the Israel national team.
Club career
On 2 February 2022, Hofmayster joined Maccabi Peta ...
(born 2000), Israeli footballer
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Yoav Horesh Yoav Horesh (; born 1975, Jerusalem, Israel) is a contemporary Israeli photographer best known for his work in both black and white and color photography capturing images of conflict, human tragedy, memory, and recovery in Europe, Asia, and the Amer ...
(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
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Yoav Kislev
Yoav Kislev (; born 1932 in Haifa – died 19 June 2017 in Rehovot) was an Israeli agricultural and water economist, who continued until his death with active research as professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the Department of Environme ...
(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
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Yoav Landau
The Living Tombstone (TLT) is an electronic rock group and YouTube channel, originally created in 2011 by Israeli-American recording producer Yoav Landau and later including American singer Sam Haft in 2020 as a musical duo. The group is notable ...
, 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
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Yoav Omer
Yoav Omer (; born 28 October 1998) is an Israeli windsurfer. He won a silver medal at the 2018 RS:X European Championships in Sopot. Omer is the 2015 and 2016 junior world champion. He also competed for Israel at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
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(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
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Yoav Ra'anan
Yoav Ra'anan (; 15 January 1928 – 9 November 2022) was an Israeli Olympic diver. He was born in Cairo, Egypt. Ra’anan died on 9 November 2022, at the age of 94.
Diving career
Ra'anan competed for Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics, at the a ...
(born 1928), Israeli diver
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Yoav Reuveni
Yoav Reuveni (; born 25 November 1985) is an Israeli fashion model and actor. He was signed to Ford Models in 2008 and modeled for fashion houses such as Roberto Cavalli, Giorgio Armani, and Dolce & Gabbana.
In 2013, he played the lead role of B ...
(born 1985), Israeli model and actor
* Yoav Sadan (born 1979), Israeli singer-songwriter
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Yoav Saffar
Yoav Saffar (; September 30, 1975) is an Israeli former basketball player. He played the power forward position.
He was a member of the 2000 and 2001 Israeli Basketball Premier League Quintet.
Biography
Saffar was born in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israe ...
(born 1975), Israeli basketball player
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Yoav Segalovitz
Yoav Segalovitz (; born 23 April 1959) is an Israeli law enforcement officer and politician. Previously head of Lahav 433 and the Investigations and Intelligence Division, he is currently a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid.
Biography
Segalo ...
(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
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Yoav Shoham
Yoav Shoham (; born 22 January 1956) is a computer scientist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has also founded and sold several AI companies.
Shoham received ...
(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 ...