JERUSALEM: Last week I flew to Eilat with two young officers of the IDF Spokesperson Unit. One of them inquired what book I was reading. It was Carole Angier's magisterial biography of Primo Levi. “Who is that?” was her immediate response. I couldn’t believe at first that a graduate of one the country’s best high schools, who had gone through the rigorous selection process—which favors candidates with a wide breadth of general knowledge—had never heard of the Italian-Jewish chemist and his ground-breaking memoir of 11 months in Auschwitz, “If This Is a Manâ€. The full text of this article can be found here ### * Anshel Pfeffer is a reporter for Ha’aretz. This article is distributed by the Common Ground News Service (CGNews) with permission from Ha’aretz. Source: Ha'aretz, 09 April 2010, www.haaretz.com. BM
