This guide is based on a guide published by Dekel Tsur that can be found here. Dekel Tsur’s guide was very good, but now it is outdated since it doesn’t work with teTeX 3.0. In this guide, I addressed this issue and updated the instructions and scripts so they will work with teTeX 3.0. Since the quality of the Hebrew metafonts that come with Hebrew LaTeX is quite poor, alternative fonts are needed. The best-quality free Hebrew fonts are TrueType fonts (for example, the Times New Roman/Arial/Courier New fonts). Using TrueType fonts with TeX is somewhat complicated, but it is quite easy with pdfTeX, as pdfTeX has native support for TrueType fonts. This document explains how to use TrueType fonts with pdfTeX. Since Hebrew requires the use of the eTeX engine, you need to have the pdfelatex program. It is available in teTeX 1.0 (which comes with recent Linux distributions). The instructions below allow using nikud, although the result is quite poor as the nikud glyphs are not aligned correctly (but it is better than nothing).