Operation Yoav (also called Operation Ten Plagues or Operation Yo'av) was an Israeli military operation carried out from 1522 October 1948 in the Negev Desert, during the 1948 ArabIsraeli War.
. Its goal was to drive a wedge between the Egyptian forces along the coast and the BeershebaHebronJerusalem road and ultimately to conquer the whole Negev. Operation Yoav was headed by the Southern Front commander Yigal Allon.
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