Close to the Sea, Yardena Arazi

I find this song almost painfully beautiful. "A place near the sea

I often find that music helps me keep my concentration - it grounds me, somehow. And those soft, Old Israeli" songs, work best. But it was years since I've heard this song - not since the old days of fierce rivalry between two giant superstars - Ofra Haza,the legendry Mizrahi nightingale, and Yardena Arazy.

I think I had a slight tilt toward Yardena, mostly because of songs like that one,that plunge me so completely into


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