40 Facts About Yossi Ghinsberg

Yosseph "Yossi" Ghinsberg is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker, now based in Byron Bay, Australia.

Yossi Ghinsberg's story was featured in the documentary series I Shouldn't Be Alive on Discovery Channel.

Yossi Ghinsberg is a tech-entrepreneur and the founder of the mobile applications Headbox, which integrates all social media activity into one feed, and Blinq, which provides social media and activity live updates.

Yossi Ghinsberg had briefly returned from an Africa to Mexico trip and longed for the rainforest immersion experience.

Yossi Ghinsberg worked several jobs to save the money to travel to South America and dreamed of exploring the uninhabited heart of the Amazon jungle.

Yossi Ghinsberg hitchhiked from Venezuela to Colombia, where he met Markus Stamm, a teacher from Switzerland, in the midst of his expeditions, and the pair became good friends and traveled together to La Paz, Bolivia.

Yossi Ghinsberg, who sought out the opportunity to explore the unexplored areas of the Amazon, immediately joined Ruprechter in his journey, along with Stamm and another of Yossi Ghinsberg's new acquaintances, Kevin Gale, an American photographer.

Gale made it to shore, but Yossi Ghinsberg floated downriver and over the waterfall.

Yossi Ghinsberg spent four days traveling upriver in search of Gale before finally coming to the realization that he was stranded alone in the jungle.

Yossi Ghinsberg spent the next three weeks lost in an uncharted part of the Amazon.

Yossi Ghinsberg survived completely alone in nature on the edge of his life.

Yossi Ghinsberg made his way back to the river and met Gale, along with indigenous people who had organized a search and rescue mission led by Abelardo "Tico" Tudela.

Yossi Ghinsberg spent the next three months recovering in hospital.

Jungle follows Yossi Ghinsberg's meeting of his three travel companions and the three weeks he spent in the Bolivian jungle without any supplies or help.

Yossi Ghinsberg served three years in the Israeli Navy on the Red Sea.

Yossi Ghinsberg stayed there from 1992 to 1995 with the natives and helped them build and operate Chalalan, an ecolodge in Bolivia's Madidi National Park.

Yossi Ghinsberg put the people of San Jose in touch with Conservation International, a Washington environmental group that has pioneered much of the ecotourism field and was instrumental in getting 1,800,000 hectares around San Jose declared as the Madidi National Park.

Yossi Ghinsberg worked on protecting intellectual properties of indigenous people of that region.

Yossi Ghinsberg co-founded EthnoBios, a biodiversity prospecting company local to the Amazon basin, and taught the indigenous people how to protect their intellectual properties.

In 1999, Yossi Ghinsberg left CITA International and moved to Australia to open his own treatment center.

In 2009, Yossi Ghinsberg returned to Israel and established Collecteco, a design label for interior and landscape designs displaying a gallery of furniture made from recycled materials.

Yossi Ghinsberg co-founded Headbox, a startup that has built an application to integrate social media activity and communication networks into one feed.

Yossi Ghinsberg is a co-founder and currently the CEO at Blinq.

In 2015, Yossi Ghinsberg launched the mobile application Blinq, which adds a layer of contextual information to mobile messaging applications and is derived from Headbox.

Yossi Ghinsberg has been a motivational speaker since 2001 and has related his experiences and hardships during his three weeks stranded in the Amazon jungle.

Yossi Ghinsberg has spoken on topics revolving around his experiences in The Power to Survive, Sailing the Seas of Change, and WEvolution, applying his survival story into motivational speaking.

Yossi Ghinsberg wrote his first book, titled Back from Tuichi, in 1993.

Yossi Ghinsberg is an active motivational speaker who offers keynotes and inspirational speeches that cover his past expeditions and experiences.

Yossi Ghinsberg has been hired to address audiences at many Fortune 500 Companies.

Yossi Ghinsberg has been covered on Fox News Latino, CNN, TEDx, BBC America, BBC World Service, LA Times, and LinkedIn.

Yossi Ghinsberg was ranked one of the Top 20 Most Inspiring People on Twitter in 2012.

Yossi Ghinsberg spoke at TEDxBratislava in 2010, his talk entitled "On Thinking Outside of the Box" about his struggle for survival in the Amazon and the insights he took away from the experience.

Yossi Ghinsberg featured in the 2013 travel documentary Gringo Trails by documentary filmmaker, Pegi Vail.

Yossi Ghinsberg was covered on the front page of The Jerusalem Posts 22 April 2016 edition.

In September 2016, Yossi Ghinsberg returned to Bolivia to speak at the Solon Foundation and El Bala about his Amazon survival experiences.

Yossi Ghinsberg studied the Kabbalah traditions in authentic environments and continues to study religions of the past and the present, including the Ancients, the Classics, Eastern, Contemporary, and the Shamanic Path.

Yossi Ghinsberg lived and worked in the Amazon from 1992 to 1995.

In 1997, Yossi Ghinsberg moved to Australia to help establish clinics that offer drug and alcohol detoxification recovery and treatment programs.

Yossi Ghinsberg has married three times and has four children: Mia, Cayam, Nissim, and Shalem.

In 2009, Yossi Ghinsberg returned to Israel with his wife and his children.