There are 260 working days in Israel in 2028, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 0 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 366 calendar days, with 106 weekend days removed.
Working days
260
Mon–Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
106
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
0
0 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
21.7
working days per month
Public holiday data for Israel in 2028 was not available from the source, so the figures above count weekdays only and do not subtract national holidays. Treat the working-day total as an upper bound.
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| February | 29 | 8 | 0 | 21 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| April | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| May | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| July | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| August | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| September | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| December | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| Total | 366 | 106 | 0 | 260 |
The 260 working days shown above are the 366 calendar days of 2028, minus the 106 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 0 public holidays that land on a weekday. Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are not subtracted, because they do not remove a day anyone would have worked; in 2028 that applies to 0 of Israel's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 260 working days works out to roughly 2,080 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
The Hours of Work and Rest Law of 1951 sets the standard week at 42 hours since the 2018 reform, distributed Sunday to Thursday in the standard five-day workweek or Sunday to half-Friday in six-day arrangements. Shabbat from Friday sunset to Saturday nightfall is the statutory weekly rest day under article 7. The Interpretation Law rolls statutory deadlines falling on Shabbat or a public holiday to the next working day. Settlement of shekel transactions runs on the Bank of Israel's ZAHAV RTGS system, which closes on Friday afternoons, Shabbat and the Jewish festival days plus secular holidays.
Israel's public holidays follow the Hebrew calendar and are set by the Days of Rest Ordinance of 1948 together with the Jewish Holidays Law. The list comprises Rosh Hashanah (two days, Jewish New Year in Tishrei), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the first and seventh days of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) and Simchat Torah, the first and seventh days of Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Pentecost), plus Independence Day (Yom Ha'atzmaut) on 5 Iyar commemorating the 1948 declaration of independence. Memorial Day (Yom HaZikaron) immediately precedes Independence Day. The Arab Israeli, Druze and Christian communities observe their own religious holidays which are paid leave for their members under article 18A of the Hours of Work and Rest Law.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Israel carry several public holidays while others have none, so the month-by-month table above is the figure to use for payroll runs, billing cycles, SLA windows, and project plans rather than a flat assumption of about 21.7 working days per month. A month with two weekday holidays can have several fewer working days than a clear one, which changes capacity planning and the realistic delivery date for anything scheduled in business days.
To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the Israel holiday calendar for 2028. You can subscribe to those dates as an .ics feed so they appear in your own calendar, or use the working-days-between-two-dates calculator to count business days for a specific date range rather than the whole year.
Working-day figures are computed from the public holiday list for Israel (source: Nager.Date and the national references above) combined with a Monday-to-Friday business week. Regional holidays and substitute-day rules vary; confirm against the official calendar for legal or payroll use.