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Ben Yehuda studied law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (International Data Corporation), and suspended his studies in order to climb Mount Everest.
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He is best known for saving the life of a Turkish climber just below the summit of Mount Everest in May 2012. Ben Yehuda lives in Rehovot, Israel. He served in the Israel Defense Forces (Israel Defense Forces) in the Golani Brigade"s reconnaissance unit
In the unit, which is one of the Israel Defense Forces"s elite infantry companies, he suffered from injuries both during training and operational activities.
He is a distinguished athlete in the International Data Corporation.
Everest incident
Ben Yehuda is most famous for attempting Mount Everest in May 2012, and rescuing the Turkish climber Aydin Imrak, some 300 metres (980 ft) short of the summit. Ben Yehuda would have been the youngest Israeli to climb the mountain.
Four climbers died on Mount Everest over the same weekend, after the large number of climbers created a bottleneck as weather conditions deteriorated. Ben Yehuda carried Imrak for several hours on their descent, after which the two were evacuated by helicopter to Kathmandu.
Both suffered injuries to their hands and their fingers were at risk of amputation.
The President of Israel at the time, Shimon Peres, said to Ben Yehuda: "You searched for a geographical peak and found a humanitarian peak". Other climbs
In preparation for his Mount Everest climb, Ben Yehuda climbed the Moshe Aviv Tower in Ramat Gan, the tallest tower in Israel, thirteen times. In September 2012, he climbed Mount Kazbek in Georgia, and after that did a solo climb in Spain.
