How many working days in year 2019?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2019 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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2019.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Purim : Thursday, 21 March, 2019
2. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Thursday, 9 May, 2019
3. Shavuot : Sunday, 9 June, 2019
4. Rosh Hashanah : Monday, 30 September, 2019
5. Rosh Hashanah : Tuesday, 1 October, 2019
6. Yom Kippur : Wednesday, 9 October, 2019
7. Sukkot : Monday, 14 October, 2019
8. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Monday, 21 October, 2019
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Pesach : Saturday, 20 April, 2019
2. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Friday, 26 April, 2019