Culture  Yair Lapid
When you're 21
Yair Lapid
Published: 30.10.06, 03:52
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1. Love
joe ,   new york   (10.30.06)
Beautiful article and well said. The greatest treasure is sometime in front of us.
2. Ironically - Ironic
Nelson ,   Goa, India   (10.30.06)
I am an native of Goa. It is so ironic that at 21 i wanted to live Goa to go to Paris and settle with a parisain women. On a recuring 2nd thought always probably the nearest to the right choice, I decided against and settled somehere else.
3. The Road Not Taken
EM ,   Ra'anana   (10.30.06)
Every one should read it at 18 and then again at 50 (and a few times in between). Yair - you said it all. Beautifully.
4. I think this is probably the best article I have ever read:>
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5. wonderful
lillian ,   israel   (10.30.06)
yair,this is the best I have ever read about love. You make me remember so many things that are best not remembered
6. it gave me shivers...
Dana ,   Bucharest, Romania   (10.31.06)
...because it feels like yair listened one of my conversations with a friend of mine. i'm 23 and i'm exactly in the same point as S. is. Planning on traveling a lot, seeing this world, experiencing as many things as possible and trying to find what i like to do in life...this article gave me shivers, made me think, but i still want to go, to travel. i didn't find my path here, in Romania, so why not look for it anywhere else? Kol Hakavod Yair, love your articles!
7. wonderful piece, i think i m gona go
svietka ,   eli-shomron   (10.31.06)
and start a new settlement somewhere on the hills of Shomron...in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by clouds and other fanatical zionists(noar gvaot)... I m inspired!!!!
8. The power of love
Blondie ,   Ontario, Canada   (11.02.06)
Enjoyed the article, beautiful! It left me stunned, parts of it felt like reading my own lifestory. As a 21 year old fun loving traveling and adventure seeking gal I decided to spend the winter in the sinai desert, working in a holiday resort. There I meet my first French Canadian guy, after a 2 1/2 years relationship living in Israel he is headed back to Canada. He asks me to join him in cold snowy Quebec. After a 2 week pit stop in my native Switzerland I fly across the ocean to Montreal. It's been almost 29 years since and I could write a novel.
9. finally
gabriela ben ari   (11.02.06)
i see Lapid is not made of 100% hatred. Someone he loves , good news
10. You're very right, Dana
Marina ,   Bucharest, Romania   (11.03.06)
Nice to meet you here, Dana. Nice to see Romanians reading Yair's articles. Don't miss them! He's the best. Kol hakavod, Yair! Shabat shalom, M.
11. stupid
Nana ,   Romania   (11.03.06)
Yair is made 100% of love, stupid!
12. Renoir and lilies
Gaston Boucher ,   Amsterdam, Holland   (11.03.06)
Yair, you're the standard Israeli with a halfbaked education ! Renoir loved bathing plump women. the guy who loved lilies is Claude Monet. Start reading some art history, it won't hurt. Gaston Boucher
13. to #12/gaston boucher in holland
lillian s miodownik ,   israel   (11.06.06)
so all your conclusion is that "standard israeli" has no culture? so what are you apart from an oxomoron with no feelings?a french or whatever anti-israeli? antijewish?start feeling and being human,it won't hurt!!!! I bet renoir or monet would have seen the beauty of the feelings,not looked for what to criticize!! PS,any misspellings or grammar incorrections?
14. The product of leftism
Danny Simkin ,   San Francisco, USA   (11.14.06)
Children like S. are the product of standardized leftist education in Israel which takes away Judaism, Jewish nationalism, true Zionism - but also other emotions and diversity.
15. probably one of the best articles that i've read on ynet.
impressed ,   jersusalem   (08.31.07)
why is this guy not featured every day. i didn't want the article to end...
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