"It was a moment of happiness, of anger, of many things together, " Ben Yehuda said.
Ben Yehuda asked a passing British climbing team to help him, to give the man oxygen.
Ben Yehuda encountered another body in an ice crack 984 feet below the summit.
Once there, Ben Yehuda opted to remain at Camp 4 to let the crowds pass.
Yehuda Mamman, spokesman for Israel's public security ministry, said the Cabinet made that decision Sunday.
BEN-YEHUDA: It looks like he caught you, like, right as you transitioning from frown to smile.
It certainly trumps the interests of New York University's Hillel director Rabbi Yehuda Sarna.
He learned from the early Zionist leader Yehuda Pinsker's seminal pamphlet, Auto-Emancipation, that Zionism rejects utopianism.
"They were hugging themselves like a baby in a mother's belly, folded into themselves, " Ben Yehuda said.
The rope tangled around Ben Yehuda's legs, threatening to bury him in the ice crack as well.
Ben Yehuda was going to get them down, and he knew it meant they both might die.
Back in Israel, Ben Yehuda was treated for brain damage, lung problems and his frostbitten face and legs.
Doctors wanted to remove every finger but the thumb on his right hand, but Ben Yehuda wouldn't allow it.
BEN-YEHUDA: Did you do anything different today because you knew that you were going to get your photo taken?
Producer Ayala Ben-Yehuda went to some DMV offices in California and got some advice for taking that all-important photo.
It was Irmak, who couldn't speak from his frostbitten face, but he looked at Ben Yehuda and his deformed hand.
Ben Yehuda connected Irmak, a man roughly his own weight, to his rappelling harness and began to maneuver them down.
People were grooving on balconies, enjoying live music on the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall and slipping prayer notes into the Western Wall.
Approximately 328 feet from the camp, Ben Yehuda fainted in the snow.
BEN-YEHUDA: Did you wear that sweat shirt that says hot space station justice because you knew that it would be in the photo today?
Speakers scheduled for this event include Henri Borlant, a physician who survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, as well as Yehuda Bauer and Irina Bokova.
In May, 1967, on the eve of Israeli Independence Day, Tzvi Yehuda Kook gave a sermon before a gathering of current and former rabbinical students.
Ben Yehuda had had a bad feeling the night before, and as he attempted to reach the summit, he was unable to pass the crowds.
The next morning, Ben Yehuda awoke to someone shaking his tent.
Ben Yehuda was dragging Irmak by then, barely able to stand.
Ben Yehuda asked a passing British climbing team to help him.
An hour into the descent, Ben Yehuda removed the mitten covering two gloves on his right hand so he could hold Irmak and the rope more securely.
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