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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Israel, with the evidence behind each date and the day it was last checked.
How we know this — every layer we hold, how each is graded, and what is missing
The next public holiday in Israel is
Shmini Atzeret
In 6 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Asia/Jerusalem
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Israel public holidays in 2026
12 national closures in 2026. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2026 | Passover | Tier 3 · Single official source |
| 8 April 2026 | Passover | Tier 3 · Single official source |
| 14 April 2026 | Holocaust Remembrance Day | Tier 4 · Secondary source |
| 21 April 2026 | Memorial Day | Tier 4 · Secondary source |
| 22 April 2026 | Independence Day | Tier 4 · Secondary source |
| 15 May 2026 | Jerusalem Day | Tier 4 · Secondary source |
| 22 May 2026 | Shavuot | Tier 3 · Single official source |
| 12 September 2026 | Rosh Hashanah | Tier 3 · Single official source |
| 13 September 2026 | Rosh Hashanah | Tier 4 · Secondary source |
| 21 September 2026 | Yom Kippur | Tier 4 · Secondary source |
| 26 September 2026 | Sukkot | Tier 3 · Single official source |
| 3 October 2026 | Shmini Atzeret | Tier 4 · Secondary source |
The shape of Israel’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
12 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Israel, 2026
2 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. Computed on this jurisdiction’s own weekly rest — Saturday — which the corpus records as verified. Friday is a short day rather than a closed one, and is not counted as time off.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Apr – 4 Apr | 3 days | Passover | take Fri 3 Apr |
| 19 Sep – 21 Sep | 3 days | Yom Kippur | take Sun 20 Sep |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Israel, how many records, how each is graded and when it was last looked at. The record rather than the data — enough to check a claim before relying on it.
| Layer | Records | How we know | Last checked | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly rest days | 1 | verified | — | 5 named sources, in force since 1951, sectors recorded separately |
| Statutory closures | 10 | 10 compiled | 2026-08-06 | |
| Religious observances | 8 | 8 compiled | 2026-08-06 | |
| Optional and restricted days | 2 | 2 compiled | 2026-08-03 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 12 | 12 compiled | 2026-08-06 | |
| School terms and breaks | 28 | — | — | 4 calendars |
| Exchanges | 1 | — | — | XTAE (37) |
| Tax and filing deadlines | 6 | — | — | |
| Elections | 13 | — | — |
Not held for Israel: Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Observed but open, Subdivision calendars. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.
4 named documents, issued by 2 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
Knesset Nevo (commercial legal database, Israel)
How Israel keeps time
| Observances | 12 across the national calendar |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 5 Tier 3 · 7 Tier 4, from 4 named sources |
| Languages | English, Hebrew |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | XTAE |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-06 |
The Israel dossier
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12 observances, complete and computed, across 4 named sources: 5 rest on an official document or on several independent sources, 7 on a published calendar reference. Every row names its tier. We are retrieving the underlying instruments market by market.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
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