--- linguistic/source/spelldsp.cxx	(revision 271264)
+++ linguistic/source/spelldsp.cxx	(working copy)
@@ -279,6 +279,40 @@ 
 }
 
 
+// Hebrew is usually written without diacritics.
+// However, sometimes the diacritics are written as special marks located within, above, or below consonants.
+// The diacritics are represented internally as separate Unicode characters.
+// Hebrew dictionaries check for words without diacritics and will continue to do so for the forseeable future
+// This function filters the diacritics out of a word, before spellchecking it
+// (Using breakiterator is not appropriate, since we don't want word-breaking at the diacritics)
+::rtl::OUString SpellCheckerDispatcher::removeDiacritics(const ::rtl::OUString& rWord, LanguageType nLanguage)
+{
+	OUString tmpWord;
+	OUString diacritics;
+	// Build a string containing diacritics to be skipped
+	switch (nLanguage)
+	{
+		case LANGUAGE_HEBREW :
+			int beginDiacritics;
+			int endDiacritics;
+			beginDiacritics = 0x591; // first of Hebrew cantillation marks
+			endDiacritics = 0x5C5; // last of Hebrew niqqud
+			for (int i = beginDiacritics; i <= endDiacritics; i++)
+				diacritics += OUString((sal_Unicode)i);
+			break;
+		default:
+			return rWord;
+	}
+	// Filter the diacritics from the word
+	for (int i = 0; i < rWord.getLength(); i ++)
+	{
+		sal_Unicode c = rWord.getStr()[i];
+		if (diacritics.indexOf(c) < 0)
+			tmpWord += rWord.copy(i, 1);
+	}
+	return tmpWord;
+}
+
 BOOL SpellCheckerDispatcher::isValid_Impl(
 			const OUString& rWord, 
             LanguageType nLanguage, 
@@ -304,7 +338,9 @@ 
 	}
 	else
 	{
-		OUString aChkWord( rWord );
+	bool bRemoveDiacritics = 
+		nLanguage == LANGUAGE_HEBREW ;
+	OUString aChkWord( bRemoveDiacritics ? removeDiacritics(rWord, nLanguage) : rWord ); 
         Locale aLocale( CreateLocale( nLanguage ) );
 
         // replace typographical apostroph by ascii apostroph
@@ -480,7 +516,9 @@ 
 	}
 	else
 	{
-		OUString aChkWord( rWord );
+	bool bRemoveDiacritics = 
+		nLanguage == LANGUAGE_HEBREW ;
+	OUString aChkWord( bRemoveDiacritics ? removeDiacritics(rWord, nLanguage) : rWord ); 
         Locale aLocale( CreateLocale( nLanguage ) );
 
         // replace typographical apostroph by ascii apostroph
--- linguistic/source/spelldsp.hxx	(revision 271264)
+++ linguistic/source/spelldsp.hxx	(working copy)
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ 
 
 	void	ClearSvcList();
 
+	::rtl::OUString removeDiacritics(const ::rtl::OUString& rWord, LanguageType nLanguage);
+    
     BOOL    isValid_Impl(const ::rtl::OUString& aWord, LanguageType nLanguage,
 					const ::com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValues& aProperties,
 					BOOL bCheckDics)