The topic is a newly published best seller (in Hebrew), “Generation Y ‒ As If There Is No Tomorrow,” by the husband and wife team of Haifa University academics Tamar and Oz Almog. They posit that Israel’s Generation Y, also known as Millennials, a group of about 800,000 born between 1980 and 1995, is generally spoiled, cosseted, self-involved, late to mature, passive, unwilling to work as hard as their parents did and incapable of commitment.

Due to overindulgent parents, Generation Y tends to lack the resilience that comes from overcoming hardships with grave implications for Israel’s future security. They have turned self-centeredness into a virtue, say the Almogs. They will leave a job at the drop of a hat if it’s boring. They like to party but with their parents footing the bill ‒ many depending on parental help even after marriage.

New Yorker magazine took it up a notch, calling US Millennials the most self-indulgent generation in the history of the world with the “exception of the imperial offspring of the Ming Dynasty.”

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