How many working days in year 2017?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2017 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 2017.
Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:
1. Pesach : Tuesday, 11 April, 2017
2. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Monday, 17 April, 2017
3. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Tuesday, 2 May, 2017
4. Shavuot : Wednesday, 31 May, 2017
5. Rosh Hashanah : Thursday, 21 September, 2017
6. Sukkot : Thursday, 5 October, 2017
7. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Thursday, 12 October, 2017
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Rosh Hashanah : Friday, 22 September, 2017
2. Yom Kippur : Saturday, 30 September, 2017