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Do you know of any free GIS sources of the Israeli administrative divisions: districts (mechozot, מחוזות) and subdistricts (nafot, נפות) which rely on official government information?

I heard there is a some free US government source, but failed to Google it.

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Did you check Open Street Map ? – GuillaumeC Feb 2 '11 at 10:14
They don't have this layer, and the data there is usually non-official. – Adam Matan Feb 2 '11 at 11:52

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i dont think info like this in free GIS sources existe. you can try to use arcscan to scan a map and make it a shp file. http://gis.cbs.gov.il/shnaton57/all_israel-2006.pdf we did something like this to a map of tel aviv in a gis-database course in baraln

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+1 Nice idea, if we can make it accurate enough. – Adam Matan Feb 3 '11 at 10:21
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Is the data from Global Administrative Areas of any use to you? You can find the dataset for Israel here: Global Administrative Areas - Israel

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+1 Thanks, but the geometries seems a bit inaccurate AFAIK, and I'm not sure how official the source - I'll mail the site. – Adam Matan Feb 2 '11 at 11:53
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Another issue - the data is not free for commercial use. – Adam Matan Feb 2 '11 at 12:57
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Take a look at OpenStreetMap.
And Gis Center at Hebrew University too. You may need to contact them by email.

Opensteetmap

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+1 I've contacted HUGIS, but they don't have these layers. OSM has some sever licensing and integrity problems for commercial use. – Adam Matan Feb 2 '11 at 13:59
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Have your tried searching in Natural Earth? The data there is in public domain, but I don't know whether they have lower-level admin. boundaries.

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