Key to entities used below: א ... ו - The first six Hebrew letters (strongly RTL). ‭ - The LRO (left-to-right override) formatting character. ‮ - the RLO (right-to-left-override) formatting character. ‬ - The PDF (pop directional formatting) formatting character; closes LRO and RLO. If the BDI in the test's first DIV were a SPAN, the RLO it contains, not being closed by a PDF, would visually reorder the de into ed.