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How many working days in year 1987?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1987 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 1987.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Pesach : Tuesday, 14 April, 1987
2. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Monday, 20 April, 1987
3. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Monday, 4 May, 1987
4. Shavuot : Wednesday, 3 June, 1987
5. Rosh Hashanah : Thursday, 24 September, 1987
6. Sukkot : Thursday, 8 October, 1987
7. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Thursday, 15 October, 1987

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

1. Rosh Hashanah : Friday, 25 September, 1987
2. Yom Kippur : Saturday, 3 October, 1987