Yoav

Yoav (Hebrew: יואב) is a male given name popular among Israeli Jews. Its popularity is attributed to both Joab (Hebrew: יוֹאָב), 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 (including Sde Yoav, a kibbutz) 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 (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
• 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 Sadan (born 1979), Israeli singer-songwriter
• Yoav Saffar (born 1975), Israeli basketball player
• Yoav Segalovich (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