Does Israel have good field guides?

Dunno. There is a field guide to wildflowers put out by the Society for the
Preservation of Nature in Israel. It is OK, but pretty basic. The Madrich Sadeh
for Trees & Shrubs appears to be very thorough, but the text is in Hebrew, & my
Hebrew is nowhere near that good. There are several typos in the Latin names. I
don't expect that they will be making much progress in science right now. They
are fighting a war for survival, you know, & the economy is a mess.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much
that ain't so."
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 1818-1885