Hi Jerry,
I think I may have something for you, but it's not perfect, but probably better than what you've been doing.
First off, you are absolutely correct that the various internal codes of making a website cause havoc with trying to "translate" that into a "normal" page. Acrobat suffers considerably on these pages. One thing that can help is if the folks who created a page offer a "Print" option on the page. What's done here is that they took the time to create a print version of the content so that it comes out great. However, sometimes a website will offer a Print button but doesn't do anything more than just provide a link to your computer's print option and nothing more.
However, one piece of software that I rely upon when wishing to convert a web page into something better is from "Print Friendly." (https://www.printfriendly.com/). One of their options is to provide a plugin that will show up as a saved web page on your computer. If you are on a page that you wish to print, you select that plugin, and it will convert the page you are looking at into something that can be printed or saved as a PDF.
BTW, one of the features I really like about Print Friendly is that when viewing their result (before printing or saving as a PDF), is that you can remove unwanted items such as images you do not need/want or other content. You cannot edit the content though.
I used it on your two links. For the first link, it was successful for the English but was a disaster on the Hebrew. However, on the 2nd link it was successful on the English and much better on the Hebrew.
To examine what was achieved, I copied the text and pasted it into Word. For the first link, for every space, it put a carriage return and made other strange results. As I stated, this was better with the Hebrew. The caveat here is that it put a "†" for each space (yes, ironic, no?). Anyhow, using Word, I did a global change for all "†" to a "(space)" and that worked very well. (Note, the "†" did not visibly show up in the PDF, only when copied and pasted.)
The one question I do have in all this is what kind of Editing do you plan on doing? Editing in Acrobat is fine if you only wish to fix a spelling or change a date. Unfortunately, extensive rewriting is not possible or realistic. Acrobat is neither a word processing program nor a page layout application. Your best bet for any extensive editing is to go back to the original document that was used to create the content and edit there.
Anyhow, I'm afraid that's the best I can offer you.
Good luck!
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