Pandoc, XeLaTex, and Hebrew Characters

[Alan Storm <alan.storm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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New to the group, and only (so far!) the most casual of pandoc users. I'm 
having some trouble getting pandoc to do things that the xelatex command 
can do.  I'm looking for someone (or someones) that can help get me to a 
solution **and** explain what pandoc is doing behind the scenes so I can 
debug these sort of problems in the future. 

In short -- I have an tex document with some hebrew characters.  If I use 
the  xelatex command directly to convert this document, the hebrew 
characters are rendered correctly in the PDF

    $ xelatex simple.tex 


    However, if I attempt to do the conversion with pandoc using the 
xelatex engine

    $ pandoc --latex-engine=xelatex simple.tex -o from-pandoc.pdf


pandoc will render the PDF **without** the hebrew characters.  There's just 
blank white space where the hebrew should be.
    
So, first question if anyone knows: How do I make pandoc render the hebrew 
into a PDF?

If there's no clear path to that answer, how to do I debug the 
pandoc/xelatex interaction in order to understand why pandoc's use of the 
engine produces different results, and how I might be able to change that 
invocation.  Regarding this -- my understanding of pandoc is very limited, 
so baby words/steps that let me become less of a baby are appreciated :)   
    
    
Also, I have some specific examples posted over on the tex StackExchange 
with hebrew examples

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/375380/getting-hebrew-support-working-with-pandoc/375443

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/375380/getting-hebrew-support-working-with-pandoc

Finally -- my ultimate goal here is to convert HTML documents with hebrew 
into PDFs.  As that also doesn't work, I'm focused on understanding the 
[tex] to [pdf] conversion.  If there's some extra wrinkle involved with 
[html] to [pdf] ( which I presume -- (correctly?) -- involves xelatex in 
the middle) feel free to chime in there as well. 

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