Hebrew Quotation Marks on MacOS

My Mac keyboard layout “Hebrew” does not output the standard quotation mark U+0022 when I shift-hit this key:

Instead it uses: U+05f4 HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM which are slightly slanted. It took me a few months to mind enough to fix it. It’s disruptive when introduced into code that then requires adding a BOM or another utf-8 marker (e.g. Python or HTML) because of the non-ascii character.

How to fix

Go to Keyboard Settings -> Input Sources -> Add the “Hebrew - PC” layout and remove the “Hebrew” layout. You can hold the “shift” key down on this screen to see the slanted quote vs the standard vertical double quotes.

Why does the “Hebrew” layout use “Gershayim”?

I don’t know, but here’s a discussion: http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2006/05/23/604580.html