Trying to identify an Israeli weed

Factual Questions
1

The plant.

Things I found out about it in Israel:

  1. It’s pretty common.
  2. It grows, at the very least, around Jerusalem. Don’t remember if I saw it in the north or not.
  3. It’s edible if you rip off the spines along the edges.

Things I’ve found about it on Google:

  3. One picture. One. Which led to a research paper in a locked database. So no help there.

Anyhoo, I trust from experience that y’all are smarter than Google’s algorithms. (At the very least, you know the difference between ID’ing weeds and looking to buy weed). Id’ really appreciate being able to put a name to it in English.

2

Cyclamen, maybe?

If that’s it, then it’s a very common and quite beloved plant. It’s also a protected flower, which means that picking it is illegal.

3

It looks like Milk thistle (Silybum) wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silybum, images

4

That looks about right. The timing for it to not have flowers is right, too.