Education
He studied at The Hebrew Reali School from 1956 to 1968, and was active at the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation (Tzofim) youth movement. Yosi did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics, and received his Doctor of Philosophy in Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977.
Career
His thesis, Optimal Testing Procedures for Coherent Systems, was written under the supervision of Professor Richard Barlow. Later Yosi taught at Michigan State University, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1986 Yosi 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 1999 Yosi became the Chief Executive Officer of Schema, a Wireless Optimization company which was later acquired by TEOCO, and in 2008 became the Chief Executive Officer of Time to Know, an education technology company that provided a holistic solution to the K–12 classroom, which included a Digital Teaching Platform together with interactive core curriculum. Doctor Ben-Dov became the Headmaster and managing director of The Hebrew Reali School in Haifa at the beginning of 2014.
Politics
He served the army at a "Nahal" unit, establishing kibbutz and Israeli settlement Mevo Hama at the southern part of the Golan Heights.