He studied at The Hebrew Reali School from 1956 to 1968,[2] and was active at the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation (Tzofim) youth movement.
He served the army at a "Nahal" unit, establishing kibbutz and Israeli settlement Mevo Hama at the southern part of the Golan Heights.
In 1986 Ben-Dov started working on Wall Street at Prudential Securities as the managing director of the Financial Strategies Group.
In 1991 he was the Director of the Rappaport Institute near the Rambam Hospital and in 1995 he joined Amdocs as a Senior Vice President in charge of the Haifa branch in Israel.
In the Corona year (2021-2020) the Reali School excelled in managing distance learning by adopting “hybrid learning” conducted in all school classrooms using quality cameras that captured classroom lessons and large TV screens that allowed teachers to follow and share the class with students at home.