How many working days in year 2006?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2006 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 2006.
Here is the list of these 5 public holidays:
1. Pesach : Thursday, 13 April, 2006
2. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Wednesday, 19 April, 2006
3. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Wednesday, 3 May, 2006
4. Rosh Hashanah : Sunday, 24 September, 2006
5. Yom Kippur : Monday, 2 October, 2006
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Shavuot : Friday, 2 June, 2006
2. Rosh Hashanah : Saturday, 23 September, 2006
3. Sukkot : Saturday, 7 October, 2006
4. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Saturday, 14 October, 2006