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How many working days in year 2026?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2026 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 5 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 2026.

Here is the list of these 5 public holidays:

1. פסח : Thursday, 2 April, 2026
2. שביעי של פסח : Wednesday, 8 April, 2026
3. יום העצמאות : Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
4. ראש השנה : Sunday, 13 September, 2026
5. יום כיפור : Monday, 21 September, 2026

And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. שבועות : Friday, 22 May, 2026
2. ראש השנה : Saturday, 12 September, 2026
3. סוכות : Saturday, 26 September, 2026
4. שמחת תורה/שמיני עצרת : Saturday, 3 October, 2026