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main.tex

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 \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside,onecolumn]{book}
-\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
 
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 % remove unnecessary warnings
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 \WarningFilter{caption}{Unknown document class}
 
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-% Tell babel to not use hyphenation for Hebrew
-\makeatletter\let\l@hebrew\l@nohyphenation\makeatother
-% Add Hebrew:
-\usepackage[hebrew,english]{babel}
+% Hebrew + English via XeLaTeX:
+\usepackage{fontspec}
+\usepackage{polyglossia}
+\setmainlanguage{english}
+\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
+% Culmus OpenType fonts for Hebrew (exact fc family names)
+\newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{Frank Ruehl CLM}
+\newfontfamily\hebrewfontsf[Script=Hebrew]{Miriam CLM}
+\newfontfamily\hebrewfonttt[Script=Hebrew]{Miriam Mono CLM}
 
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 % Set page numbering with no headers (according to guidelines):
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  }
 \makeatother
 
-\PrerenderUnicode{א}
-
 \newcommand{\onlythesecnum}{\arabic{section}}
 \newcommand{\onlythesubsecnum}{\arabic{subsection}}