Installing hebrew (culmus) on Mac using TexLive

Question

I am trying to follow the instructions below in order to install hebrew to work with Latex on a mac (Lion) running TexLive. The script seems to be outdated in so many ways... Could someone help me to get the font installation process right?

Thank you in advance

#!/bin/bash

mkdir tmp_latex_install
cd tmp_latex_install
# download culmus (fonts) and ivritex (latex support)
wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/culmus/culmus-0.100-iso8859-8.tar.gz
wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ivritex/culmus-latex-0.6.tar.gz

# unzip
tar zxvf culmus-0.100-iso8859-8.tar.gz
tar zxvf culmus-latex-0.6.tar.gz

# install culmus fonts
mv ISO-8859-8 ~/Library/culmus-fonts/
#xset +fp $HOME/Library/culmus-fonts
#xset fp rehash

# install ivritex
#mkdir -p $HOME/Library/texmf/
cd culmus-latex-0.6
#make TEXMFDIR=$HOME/Library/texmf/ CULMUSDIR=$HOME/Library/culmus-fonts
#sudo make TEXMFDIR=$HOME/Library/texmf/ CULMUSDIR=$HOME/Library/culmus-fonts install

cd ../..
rm -rf tmp_latex_install

Answer 1

First, you might get around this whole issue by using xelatex, which supports system-wide fonts. If you use babel with Hebrew you're probably out of luck, though - you will have to install the Hebrew fonts, including jerus10, deads10, etc.

The ivritex project is dead, and the files from SourceForge do not contain the fonts (or at least, not a readily-used version of them). So let's get them from Debian.

A quick search found the ivritex Debian package. At the bottom, you can download the .deb file, and see the list of files included in the package.

TL;DR

Fire up a terminal and hit

mkdir hebrew-fonts
cd hebrew-fonts
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ivritex/ivritex_1.1.1-6_all.deb
ar -x ivritex_1.1.1-6_all.deb data.tar.gz
tar xfz data.tar.gz
cd usr/share
cp -r texmf ~/Library/
cd ../../..
rm -rf hebrew-fonts

Look at LaTeX, now look back at me. You now can compile Hebrew LaTeX.