Ben is both American and Israeli: born to a religious and Zionist family who moved to Israel in 2003, when he was 13. He has since served in the IDF (Combat Engineer Corps), and graduated Hebrew University where he earned a degree in Hospitality. Throughout his studies and afterwards Ben has worked in 3 different hotels in Israel, a boutique resort in Fiji (from Tel Aviv), and today works as a graphic designer in a major Israeli architecture firm.