diff --git a/tests/examples/iso-8859-8-i.tnef b/tests/examples/iso-8859-8-i.tnef
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bbd141c
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/examples/iso-8859-8-i.tnef differ
diff --git a/tests/test_tnef.py b/tests/test_tnef.py
index a29de7a..cfe1fc6 100644
--- a/tests/test_tnef.py
+++ b/tests/test_tnef.py
@@ -30,3 +30,10 @@ def test_bad_signature():
 
     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=r"Wrong TNEF signature: 0x\w+"):
         TNEF(tnef_data)
+
+
+def test_tnef_htmlbody_hebrew_text():
+    tnef_data = (HERE / "examples" / "iso-8859-8-i.tnef").read_bytes()
+    t = TNEF(tnef_data)
+    unicode_slice = t.htmlbody[1795:1799]
+    assert unicode_slice == u'\u05d5\u05d5\u05d0\u05dc', "Unexpected val in htmlbody"
diff --git a/tnefparse/mapi.py b/tnefparse/mapi.py
index 8d54e31..af37d78 100644
--- a/tnefparse/mapi.py
+++ b/tnefparse/mapi.py
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ def parse_property(data, offset, attr_name, attr_type, codepage, is_multi):
             item = data[offset: offset + length]
             if attr_type == SZMAPI_UNICODE_STRING:
                 item = item.decode('utf-16')
-            elif attr_type == SZMAPI_STRING:
+            elif attr_type in (SZMAPI_STRING, SZMAPI_BINARY):
                 item = item.decode(codepage)
             attr_data.append(item)
             offset += length