Well, thanks to a suggestion from one of my mates I resolved the more critical problem (2) of the Hebrew text displaying in gibberish.
All I needed to do was to re-encode the files as UTF-8 without BOM (they were encoded as UTF-8 (plain)). I re-uploaded these files to the server and Voila, everything was back to normal.
Problem #1 is not so critical as even though the selection box doesn’t appear the site still behaves as though it is set to be in Hebrew (I guess the WP_LANG did it’s magic in any case).
Thank you all for giving a look.
I would appreciate if anyone has any idea why this re-encoding was actually needed, obviously the files worked perfectly before, so why was this change necessary?
All the best!
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