Adding keyboard layout to tty and to i3 with urxvt

After million searches and tries, reddit posting and bleeding keyboard, I give up. I can't figure out how to add another keyboard layout. I want simple alt+shift switching settings and I want it to work on both tty and urxvt. I have seen the install wiki, the xorg page and few questions and answers in the forum. not only that I couldnt get it to work, I can't understand which one from all the different configuration options is the current, right for my setup.
Many thanks

Thank you for replying
this is what I configured:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Xkbmodel" "microsoftccurve2k"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,il"
Option XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection
this is what the xlog tells me:
I) config/udev: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (/dev/input/event0)
[ 54.914] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Applying InputClass "microsoftccurve2k"
[ 54.914] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 54.914] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[ 54.914] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
[ 54.914] (**) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
[ 54.914] (--) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Vendor 0x1 Product 0x1
[ 54.914] (--) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
[ 54.914] (II) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
[ 54.914] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0/event0"
[ 54.914] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 8)
[ 54.914] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 54.914] (**) Option "xkb_model" "microsoftccurve2k"
[ 54.914] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us,il"
[ 54.914] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
and the thing dosent work

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