Israel public holidays 2028

Long weekends in 2028

• Tuesday, April 11: Passover (Pesach) gives four days off if you take Monday, April 10 as a bridge day.
• Monday, April 17: Mimouna, Seventh day of Passover gives a three-day weekend.
• Tuesday, May 2: Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut) gives four days off if you take Monday, May 1 as a bridge day.
• Thursday, September 21: Rosh Hashanah (Yom Teruah) gives four days off if you take Friday, September 22 as a bridge day.
• Friday, September 22: Rosh Hashanah (Day 2) gives a three-day weekend.
• Thursday, October 5: Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) gives four days off if you take Friday, October 6 as a bridge day.
• Thursday, October 12: Simchat Torah/ Shmini Atzeret gives four days off if you take Friday, October 13 as a bridge day.

On a weekend this year: Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) (Saturday, September 30).

Other dates in 2028 (not days off for everyone)

• January 9: Tenth of Tevet (observance)
• February 12: Tu Bishvat (Arbor Day) (observance)
• March 9: Fast of Esther (school holiday)
• March 12: Purim (school holiday)
• April 6: Aliyah Day (observance)
• April 12: Passover (intermediate days) (school holiday)
• April 24: Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) (observance)
• May 1: Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day (Yom HaZikaron) (observance)
• May 7: Herzl Day (observance)
• May 9: Victory in Europe Day (observance)
• May 14: Lag BaOmer (school holiday)
• May 24: Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) (observance)
• July 11: Seventeenth of Tamuz, fast (observance)
• July 23: Jabotinsky Day (observance)
• August 1: Tisha B'Av, fast (observance)
• August 7: Tu B'Av (Fifteenth of Av) (observance)
• September 24: Fast of Gedaliah (Tzom Gedalya) (observance)
• October 6: The week of Sukkot (school holiday)
• November 1: Rabin Day (observance)
• November 18: Sigd (observance)
• November 24: Ben-Gurion Day (observance)
• December 13: Hanukkah (school holiday)
• December 28: Tenth of Tevet (observance)