diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index a360199b2d..b87faa59bb 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ COPY package*.json ./
 
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
 RUN npm install --unsafe-perm
-RUN pip install python-bidi
 
 COPY ./node ./node
 COPY ./static/js ./static/js
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 12c82ff491..cf4b3bed5a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ unidecode==1.1.1
 user-agents==2.2.0
 sentry-sdk==1.26.0
 babel
-python-bidi
+python-bidi==0.4.2
 requests
 Cerberus
 dnspython