Yoav
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 Yitzhak Dubno, a 1940s Palmach soldier whose codename was Yoav.
Yoav is also the namesake of two Israeli settlements: Yoav Regional Council 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:
- Yoav Avni, Israeli author
- Yoav Bear, Israeli cyclist
- Yoav Benjamini, Israeli statistician
- Yoav Ben-Tzur, Israeli politician and acting Minister of Health
- Yoav Bruck, Israeli swimmer
- Yoav Chelouche, Israeli businessman
- Yoav Cohen, Israeli windsurfer
- Yoav Dothan, Israeli chess player
- Yoav Eliasi, Israeli rapper
- Yoav Eshed, Israeli guitarist
- Yoav Freund, Israeli computer scientist
- Yoav Gallant, Israeli politician and Minister of Defense
- Yoav Gath, Israeli swimmer
- Yoav Gelber, Israeli historian
- Yoav Gerafi, Israeli footballer
- Yoav Goren, American-Israeli musician
- Yoav Har-Even, Israeli general
- Yoav Hofmayster, Israeli footballer
- Yoav Horesh, Israeli photographer
- Yoav Kisch, Israeli politician and Minister of Education
- Yoav Kislev, Israeli agricultural economist
- Yoav Kutner, Israeli presenter
- Yoav Landau, Israeli musician
- Yoav Meiri, Israeli swimmer
- Yoav Mordechai, Israeli general
- Yoav Omer, Israeli windsurfer
- Yoav Potash, American-Israeli writer and filmmaker
- Yoav Ra'anan, Israeli diver
- Yoav Reuveni, Israeli model and actor
- Yoav Sadan, Israeli singer-songwriter
- Yoav Saffar, Israeli basketball player
- Yoav Segalovitz, Israeli politician
- Yoav Shamir, Israeli filmmaker
- Yoav Shechtman, Israeli physicist
- Yoav Shoham, American-Israeli computer scientist
- Yoav Talmi, Israeli composer and conductor
- Yoav Yehoshua Weingarten, Polish rabbi
- Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer