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How many working days in year 2022?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2022 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 2022.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. פורים : Thursday, 17 March, 2022
2. יום העצמאות : Thursday, 5 May, 2022
3. שבועות : Sunday, 5 June, 2022
4. ראש השנה : Monday, 26 September, 2022
5. ראש השנה : Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
6. יום כיפור : Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
7. סוכות : Monday, 10 October, 2022
8. שמחת תורה/שמיני עצרת : Monday, 17 October, 2022

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. פסח : Saturday, 16 April, 2022
2. שביעי של פסח : Friday, 22 April, 2022