darth It's not so crazy using button mapper to change keyboards pretty quick. And even though I don't use hebrew so much, I sometimes have a better experience with that keyboard and use it anyway (kika isn't great in some apps).
I am curious about Traditional T9. It doesn't work well on this phone (crashes right away), but it might just be a key mapping issue. It's open source with plenty of documentation, but I haven't really had the time to look into it much.
I am also curious about NineKeyIme, which is in Snapfon phones (and one guy here had it on a Jethro). The thing has a massive T9 dictionary, including words like "1weather" and "kumzitz", but I am not sure where to get a hold of it, and not sure it would work (I also am not very familliar with deodexing). (Maybe we can get PureTalk to give it to us). But that keyboard isn't hebrew, i am just interested in a better keyboard in general.