“The Da Vinci Code” tops Israeli high-schoolers’ lists of favorite books. According to an Education Ministry study released this week, Dan Brown’s best-selling book, as well as Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” are the books most read by Israeli 11th- and 12th-graders. In junior high schools, J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” won out.
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