[Waiting for user feedback] I am using Elementor, ACF and WPML for a multilingual website, and have issues with custom filter

Background of the issue:
I am using Elementor, ACF, and WPML for a multilingual website. I have a custom post type called 'officials' connected to product categories. These officials are salespeople responsible for specific product categories. On category pages, I display these salespeople using an Elementor loop with a custom filter. In the main language (Hebrew), it works well, but in the English version, the query to retrieve connected salespeople returns empty. I attempted debugging, but the query still returns nothing. The code snippet I used is:
...
elseif (is_product_category()) {
$term_id = get_queried_object_id();

$original_id = apply_filters('wpml_object_id', $term_id, 'product_cat', true, wpml_get_default_language());

$query->set('meta_query', array(
array(
'key' => 'connected_categories',
'value' => '"' .$original_id . '"',
'compare' => 'LIKE'
)
));
}
..

Symptoms:
The query to retrieve connected salespeople in the English version of the site returns empty, despite the connection being visually set in the admin.

Questions:
What am I doing wrong with the query in the English version?
Why does the query return empty for the English version but works in the main language?