Including Hebrew text in a non-Hebrew document (Babel not working)

Question

I need to introduce one Hebrew word in a document. I have been trying to add an hebrew option in my Babel includepackage command, as in the following code, but it does not work: it triggers a clash with almost all the other packages (in the following examples, all the ones below inputenc).

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[english,hebrew,french]{babel}
\usepackage{aeguill}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xspace}
\usepackage{listingsutf8}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\begin{document}
Blah
\end{document}

This is a minimal non-working example: I need all these packages for my document. How can I display Hebrew text here? I'd like to avoid including it as a picture...

Answer 1

Pobably this is not a package conflict, but rather the lack of babel support for Hebrew. A possible solution (not tested) is to install the package IvriTeX (Hebrew package for the babel system and LaTeX2e). To install in a Debian system:

apt-get install ivritex

In other case go to http://ivritex.sourceforge.net/

Another solution is to remove hebrew from the babel options and use the cjhebrew package:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[english,french]{babel}
\usepackage{aeguill}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xspace}
\usepackage{listingsutf8}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{cjhebrew}

\begin{document}
\begin{cjhebrew}
b*:re’+siyt b*ArA’ ’E:lohiym ’et ha+s*Amayim w:’et hA’ArE.s; w:hA’ArE.s
hAy:tAh tohU wAbohU w:.ho+sEk: ‘al--p*:ney t:hOm
\end{cjhebrew}

L'e'quation $E=mc^2$ a e'te' exprime'e en 1905 par Albert Einstein.
\end{document}