Prof. Dina Ben-Yehuda served as an officer in Brigade 14 and, during the Yom Kippur War, helped establish the army’s Victim’s Unit, for which she earned the Chief of Staff Citation. She received her medical degree from Ben-Gurion University's Medical School and pursued her medical training as an intern and resident at Hadassah University Hospital, specializing in hematology.

Her basic research training began at the Hebrew University's Medical School at the Lautenberg Center, followed by a fellowship at the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York. Upon returning to Israel, Prof. Ben-Yehuda established a lab for the diagnosis and research of malignant hematological diseases. In 2000, she was appointed as a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and has been leading the hospital’s Hematology Department since then. She is involved in innovative research, focusing on the use of novel pro-apoptotic proteins packed in nanoparticles as a treatment for lymphoma, while also engaging in extensive clinical work. In 2017, she became the first woman appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University, a position she held until October 2023. Prof. Ben-Yehuda co-founded, with Mr. Sami Sagol, the computational medicine track at the Faculty of Medicine. She also founded and chairs the Jerusalem Center for Computational Medicine and serves as chair of the Academic Committee for the Center for Computational Medicine at the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Medicine. Prof. Ben-Yehuda has received numerous awards for her clinical work and research. She is also active in the public realm, being a member of the Public Committee for the Expansion of the Health Services Basket, and its chair for the last two years. She also volunteers at the Israeli Center for Custody. Recently, she was appointed Chief of Medical Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.