Calling Australia home. Yossi proudly calls Australia home;. born in tel aviv, Yossi arrived first in sydney, Australia in 1998 to establish a detoxification and rehabilitation center for opiate addicts. his first three years in Australia where in this capacity. In these years of intense work he hardly left sydney, though occasionally managed to escaped to the Australian outback for weekends. he fell in love with sydney a city he deems the most beautiful in the world. this love and appreciation to Australia just deepened with time as he ventured to the Australian wilderness and got to know the great spirit of its people. Yossi's work made him actively involved in the Australian society meeting government officials, ministers and members of the parliament in canberra to discuss policy. he later established the 'alma libre' foundation to help rehabilitate and reintegrate addicts into society as well as educate the Australian society about opiate addiction.
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A cosmopolitan character, Yossi Ghinsberg has made planet Earth his home. Yossi says he belongs where he is, right here, right now.
Yossi was born and raised in Israel, a country somewhat an island in its isolation in the Middle East and was the second son to migrants from Eastern Europe whom arrived in Israel after the second World War. 'The mould of my culture and society was tremendous' Yossi explains. 'We were the first generation born in the country after the war and grew up knowing that we belong here and that we need to stick together to defend ourselves and make sure the holocaust would never happen again. For me to be able to say that I am an Earthling first, before any national, cultural or religious identity, is not a simple declaration, to say the least. Nevertheless, I have become someone who belongs to the experience of life in this realm and am traveling this planet at home wherever I am, yet a foreigner even in the country where I was born; I am the eternal nomad, a traveling soul, a badu.'
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