US actor Kevin Bacon is to star in “Jungle” based on the true story of Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg, who was lost in the Amazon rainforest for three weeks in 1981.  “Back to Tuichi” was one of Israel’s most popular books in the 1990s. It has been translated into 15 languages.

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