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Born April 25, 1959, Tel Aviv, Israel - Israeli actor, screenwriter, producer, traveler, writer, entrepreneur, philanthropist and motivator.
After serving in the Israeli Navy in 1981, Ginsberg, inspired by the autobiographical book "Moth" of the fugitive convict Henri Charrieres, decided to find the author of the work and ask his blessing to follow his path. Ginsberg worked several jobs to earn money to travel to South America, where he planned to explore the uninhabited Amazon jungle. By that time, Charriere had died, and Ginsberg went to South America, where he hitchhiked from Venezuela to Colombia. There he befriended the American photographer Kevin Gale and made his way to La Paz in Bolivia with him. In La Paz, the Austrian Karl Ruprechter, who introduced himself as a geologist, agreed to take the travelers on an expedition in search of gold and the Indian village of Takana in the Bolivian Amazon. They were joined by Kevin's friend, Swiss teacher Marcus.
21-year-old Yossi Ginsberg and two of his new friends with Ruprechter flew by plane to the city of Rurrenabaq. Local residents warned about the danger of the undertaken journey, but the team entered the jungle, sailed along the Beni River. Guided by Ruprechter's map, they stopped in villages to replenish food and medicine supplies. When the food ran out, they ate the monkeys. Due to Stamm's refusal to consume the primate, his physical strength left him. After a few days of wandering through the jungle, the friends realized that Ruprechter had lied about gold and the Indian village, and is an Austrian criminal looking for gold for his own selfish purposes. With this understanding, tension in the team increased, the route changed. Gale and Ginsberg decided to build a raft and sail to Rurrenabaque along the Tuichi River and then along the Beni River. But, Ruprechter could not swim and, together with Stamm, decided to walk up the river to continue on to the village of Takana. All four promised to meet for Christmas in La Paz.
At the Falls, Ginsberg and Gail lost control of the raft and lost sight of each other. Gail made it ashore and Yossi was swept away by the current. He searched for a friend for four days, but realized that he was lost. Gale was rescued by local fishermen 5 days later. Ruprechter and Stamm were never able to find a single rescue mission.
Ginsberg survived for three weeks in the wild jungle all alone, without the necessary provisions and devices. He was almost eaten by wild predators, bitten by large red ants, Yossi twice got out of the swamp, his health worsened. In the second week, the flood began, in which Ginsberg almost drowned. For the next five days he did not eat anything, and his legs were festering from fungi. Sometimes he came across berries, fruits, bird eggs in the nests, and he thought about killing the monkey for food. According to Ginsberg, he dreamed of a woman with whom he slept warmly and tried to protect her. Ginsberg repeatedly prayed to God for an end to the torment. Yossi went to the sound of the engine to the river, where he met Gale with the indigenous people, who organized a search team with the leader of Abelardo "Tiko" Tudela. Three days after the start of the search operation, when there was no hope left, they found a lost man who had spent 3 weeks in the jungle. After he was rescued, Yossi was treated in the hospital for three months.
Ginsberg served for three years in the Israeli Navy in the Red Sea. Then he made friends with the Bedouins in the Sinai Desert and learned more about their nomadic culture. To save money for the trip, he changed several jobs, including construction work in Norway, fishing in Alaska, and was a loader in New York.
10 years after his sad journey through the Amazon jungle, he returned to Bolivia for 4 weeks. Ginsberg helped the people of Takana-Quechua - residents of the village of San Jose de Uchupiamons - through the Inter-American Development Bank to receive a grant of $ 1.25 million to build solar panels in the jungle, and taught them how to use them. Yossi lived with the locals from 1992 to 1995 and helped them build the Chalalan eco-houses in Bolivia's Madidi National Park. He also established local contacts with the Conservation Society International, a Washington-based ecotourism environmental group that donated 4.5 million acres of land around San Jose to Madidi. Ginsberg also defended the intellectual property of the indigenous peoples of the region. He co-founded EthnoBios, a biodiversity search company in the Amazon.
In 1995, the International Center for the Study and Treatment of Addiction (CITA) hired Ginsberg as vice president of development. In this role, Ginsberg established 12 opium addiction treatment and research centers in different parts of the world from Mexico to China. In 1999, he left this job and moved to Australia to open his own treatment center, the Alma Libre Foundation, to provide care and rehabilitation for opium addicts. At the height of the Intifada in 2001, he organized a music festival in Israel to support Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation.
In 2009, Ginsberg returned to Israel and founded the Collecteco design company in Ramallah. In 2013, he co-founded the startup Headbox, which offered an application for integrating social networks and communication into one channel.
Ginsberg wrote his first book "Back from Tuichi" in 1993, which became popular in Israel, translated into 15 languages. In 2008, his second book, "The Laws of the Jungle: Jaguars Don't Need Tutorials", was published.
He was named one of the 20 inspiring people on Twitter in 2012. Ginsberg has repeatedly appeared in documentaries, talk shows, and motivational speeches. On April 22, 2016, he appeared on the cover of The Jerusalem Post.
In 2014, Arclight Films announced its intention to adapt Ginsberg's novel The Jungle: An Incredible and True Survival Story. Jungle was released on October 17, 2017 after six weeks of filming from April to May 2016 in Tobia, Colombia, Guaduas, and Honda. 20-40% of the proceeds should go to the Columbia Cinema Foundation.
