Gal Gadot Partners With Keshet For Film Adaptation Of Novel About Israeli-Palestinian Romance

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Gal Gadot and her husband Jaron Varsano are partnering with Keshet International for a film adaptation of controversial novel Borderlife, about a romance between a Jewish Israeli woman and a Palestinian man.

The Wonder Woman star and Varsano will co-produce the film through their Pilot Wave production banner in partnership with U.S.-based Keshet Studios, headed by Peter Traugott.

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Borderlife, known in English as All the Rivers, was published in 2014. The international bestselling novel from Israeli author Dorit Rabinian tells the story of a Jewish woman and Palestinian man who meet in New York and fall in love.

Israel’s education ministry banned the book from high school reading lists because of its depiction of a cross-cultural romance. The decision sparked protests and the novel was later allowed in advanced literature classes.

Gadot will next be seen in Wonder Woman 1984, which opens in June 2020.

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