Moshe Carmeli's first general-relativity textbook was Group Theory and General Relativity (McGraw-Hill, 1977), not the 1982 Classical Fields

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An open corroboration question about Bernadette Lessel's 2026 account of Roberto Lalli's Renaissance-era research centers left ambiguous which of Moshe Carmeli's two general-relativity-adjacent books counts as his "first GR textbook": Group Theory and General Relativity (McGraw-Hill, 1977) or Classical Fields: General Relativity and Gauge Theory (Wiley-Interscience, 1982). Two sources independent of each other and of Lessel's paper resolve this to the 1977 book. A contemporaneous Nature review by Paul Davies opens by citing the book under review: "Group Theory and General Relativity. By Moshe Carmeli. Pp. 391. (McGraw-Hill: New York and Toronto, 1977.) £16.85." Carmeli's Wikipedia bibliography independently lists the same title, author, publisher, and year as the first entry in his "Notable publications," with the 1982 Classical Fields following it chronologically.

Carmeli was a doctoral student of Lalli's identified Haifa/Technion research center's principal investigator, Nathan Rosen — see the companion claim on that lineage — and is cited in Lessel's broader PI-textbook correlation as the Haifa/Technion center's eventual textbook author, even though Rosen himself is not credited with one.