There are many places where there is a name tag in Hebrew but there is no name:he tag, that’s wrong in general and for the Hebrew map makes us show the English name as we try name:he and then name:en and only then name.
I’m currently running a script that patches that up so that tomorrow the Hebrew map will be better.
Great !!! Great !!! Great !!!
This will really improve the data of Israel a lot.
Keep doing what you are doing already 
Has somebody a idea how to create such a script and run it? I tried to contact Baruch but he is not answering 
I think that adding the name:he is very anoying and thats why a lot of people and mappers do not tag it. But this is very important for a multi language map.
If you would like to have the whole map visible in Hebrew you would have to use the name:he tag.
Lets assume that I can filter those streets with OSMFILTER.EXE and make sure all name tags are Hebrew.
How do I change them into OSM planet?
A simple rule like should do that job:
for (each line of the db file)
{
if (name != “” and name:he = “”)
name:he = name
}
A starting point would be xybot http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Xybot and the python api http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PythonOsmApi, but it requires careful work as you need to download the data, process it and upload it without harming interim changes. I made a few mistakes along the way when I first did it.
I don’t think I even have the old scripts I made so it will be needed to write it from scratch and it requires non-trivial work to do it right.
Hi Baruch,
would be of course great if you could try find it. Would be very helpful.