Shai Tubali is a some-what familiar name in the media, because unlike other nutty cult leaders, he published a successful book, and his name is also known from the time he served in Galey Tzahal almost two decades ago. His cult is quite small, reported to be under 30 followers these days, but several news sources (Yediot, Channel 2) have published worrying stories about the way he abuses his flock. One of the people who also wrote about him several times is reporter, blogger and newage academic Tomer Persico. Of all the publications, Tubali decided to skip the national media and pick on Persico and hit him with a 220K NIS libel suit. More Info (also in Hebrew) in NRG.

This howto aimed at bloggers wanting to post in more than one language and need bidirectional support. I could not find this info gathered elsewhere, so I’m summarizing what I know here. Distribution license and other info is at the end.

The options I’ve encountered so far:

1. Open two blogs and “ignore” the problem, like Dr. Gadi Taub and others. There are localized RTL themes ans editions of Wordpress in Hebrew ( T1 T2), Arabic ( T1 T2) and Farsi ( T). The maintainer for the Arabic WP is an Israeli, btw.