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How many working days in year 1994?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1994 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1994.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. פסח : Sunday, 27 March, 1994
2. יום העצמאות : Thursday, 14 April, 1994
3. שבועות : Monday, 16 May, 1994
4. ראש השנה : Tuesday, 6 September, 1994
5. ראש השנה : Wednesday, 7 September, 1994
6. יום כיפור : Thursday, 15 September, 1994
7. סוכות : Tuesday, 20 September, 1994
8. שמחת תורה/שמיני עצרת : Tuesday, 27 September, 1994

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. שביעי של פסח : Saturday, 2 April, 1994