Hannah Ben Dov trained at the Bezalel Academy during the 1940s, and then continued her studies at the Camberwell School of Art in London.
After her studies, she settled in Paris, where she exhibited for the first time in 1948. She lived and worked in France throughout her artistic career and belonged to the Parisian school of gestural abstraction, known as the Second School of Paris. In 1951, she participated in the Menton Biennale.

Her works are present in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d'Art Moderne of Paris, the Tel-Aviv Museum and the Rockefeller Collection in New York.