diff --git a/pkgs/data/fonts/culmus/default.nix b/pkgs/data/fonts/culmus/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..08783e46cdea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/fonts/culmus/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "culmus-${version}";
+  version = "0.130";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/culmus/culmus/${version}/culmus-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "908583e388bc983a63df4f38f7130eac69fc19539952031408bb3c627846f9c1";
+  };
+  
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/share/fonts/truetype
+    cp -v *.ttf $out/share/fonts/truetype/
+  '';
+  
+  meta = {
+    description = "Culmus Hebrew fonts";
+    longDescription = "The Culmus project aims at providing the Hebrew-speaking GNU/Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of Hebrew fonts for X Windows.";
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    homepage = http://culmus.sourceforge.net/;
+    downloadPage = http://culmus.sourceforge.net/download.html;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 82b22ce70bd5..31291b61d5c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10446,6 +10446,8 @@ let
   coreclr = callPackage ../development/compilers/coreclr { };
 
   corefonts = callPackage ../data/fonts/corefonts { };
+  
+  culmus = callPackage ../data/fonts/culmus { };
 
   wrapFonts = paths : (callPackage ../data/fonts/fontWrap { inherit paths; });