Israel Business Day Calculator

For Israel this calculator counts the operating days of ZAHAV, the Bank of Israel's RTGS payment system: Sunday to Friday, with Saturday the only weekly rest day. A Friday, or a holiday eve the Bank's list marks as a short business day, counts as a full business day here; in the 2026 and 2027 calendars the banking business day ends at 14:00 on those days and at 18:30 on a regular one. For 2024 to 2027 the holidays are the days the Bank's calendar for that year marks as non-business days in ZAHAV: the Jewish holidays and Independence Day, Purim, the Fast of the Ninth of Av, the eve of Yom Kippur, the municipal election of 27 February 2024 and the Knesset election of 27 October 2026. A holiday on a Saturday takes no business day off. One on a Friday does.

ZAHAV closes for Purim on its Tel Aviv date only, 3 March in 2026 and 23 March in 2027, and that is the day counted here. The Bank's Markets Department lists the Jerusalem day that follows (4 March 2026, 24 March 2027) among its bank and public holidays as well; add it under Advanced options for a deadline that runs in Jerusalem. In 2026 and 2027 the Markets Department is also closed on the eves of Passover and Rosh Hashanah, which it notes are working days at other banks, and on Fridays, holiday eves and the intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot it works until 13:15 Israel time. The Bank has published no list for 2028 or 2029 yet, so those years carry only the Jewish holidays and Independence Day, and their counts can change once it does.

Two other weeks run beside this one. Government ministries on a five-day week work Sunday to Thursday, and those on a six-day week Sunday to Friday (Civil Service Regulations, the Takshir, paragraph 31.111, read in the copy on the National Insurance Institute's site, whose page footer is dated 29 May 2022). The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange keeps its own: TASE scheduled its move to Monday-to-Friday trading for 5 January 2026 and reports the transition completed at the beginning of 2026, so the exchange trades on Fridays and not on Sundays. A deadline that runs on either of those weeks is not the default count. For the ministries' five-day week, choose Sunday to Thursday (government ministries) under Working week, below the country: the calculator then treats Friday as a weekend day as well as Saturday and leaves out the same holidays, those of the Bank's list. The choice travels in a link copied from the result, and every result states the week it counted. No setting counts the exchange's Monday-to-Friday week.

The days in this calculator's Israel data:

• Passover (day 1 and day 7, Hebrew calendar)
• Yom Ha'atzmaut / Independence Day (Hebrew calendar)
• Shavuot (Hebrew calendar)
• Rosh Hashanah (2 days, Hebrew calendar)
• Yom Kippur (Hebrew calendar)
• Sukkot day 1 (Hebrew calendar)
• Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah (Hebrew calendar)
• Purim, Tel Aviv date (2024 to 2027)
• Fast of the Ninth of Av (2024 to 2027)
• Eve of Yom Kippur (2024 to 2027)
• Election days: 27 February 2024 (municipal) and 27 October 2026 (Knesset)

For 2024 to 2027 the dates are those of the Bank of Israel's ZAHAV calendar for each year, cited below; 2028 and 2029 carry only the Jewish holidays and Independence Day until the Bank publishes those years' calendars. How we determine holidays →

A deadline counted in working days needs the same week and the same holidays. The Response Deadline Calculator counts working or calendar days against the Israel holiday calendar and shows where a deadline lands.