Yoav

Yoav (יואב) is a male given name popular among Israeli Jews. Its popularity is attributed to both Joab (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