"Operation Yoav (also called Operation Ten Plagues or Operation Yo'av) was an Israeli military operation carried out from 15\u201322 October 1948 in the Negev Desert, during the 1948 Arab\u2013Israeli War. Its goal was to drive a wedge between the Egyptian forces along the coast and the Beersheba\u2013Hebron\u2013Jerusalem road and ultimately to conquer the whole Negev. Operation Yoav was headed by the Southern Front commander Yigal Allon."@en . . .