Public Holidays in Israel

2017 Holidays

March:

• Purim
  Start date: March 12, 2017

April:

• Pesach (Passover)
  Start date: April 11, 2017
  End date: April 18, 2017

• Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day)
  Start date: April 24, 2017

May

• Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day)
  Start date: May 1, 2017

• Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day)
  Start date: May 2, 2017

• Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)
  State date: May 24, 2017

• Shavuot (Pentecost)
  Start date: May 31, 2017
  End date: June 1, 2017

August

• Tish’a B’Av (The ninth day of Av, with a fast commemorating the destruction of the two Temples)
  Start date: August 1, 2017

September

• Rosh Hashanah (New Year)
  Start date: September 21, 2017
  End date: September 22, 2017

• Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
  Start date: September 30, 2017

October

• Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)
  Start date: October 5, 2017
  End date: October 11, 2017

• Shmini Atzeret (Eighth Day of Assembly)
  Start date: October 12, 2017

• Simchat Torah
  Start date: October 13, 2017

• Yom HaAliyah (Israeli Immigrants Day)
  Start date: October 27, 2017

November

• Sigd (Ethiopian Jewish holiday)
  Start date: Nov. 18, 2017

December

• Hanukkah (Known as the Festival of Lights)
  Start date: December 13, 2017
  End date: December 20, 2017

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2018  HOLIDAYS

March:

• Purim
  Start date: March 1, 2018

• Pesach (Passover)
  Start date: March 31, 2018

April:

• Pesach (Passover)
  Start date: March 31, 2018End date: April 7, 2018

• Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day)
  Start date: April 12, 2018

 

• Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day)
  Start date: April 18, 2018

• Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day)
  Start date: April 19, 2018

May

• Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)
  State date: May 13, 2018

• Shavuot (Pentecost)
  Start date: May 20, 2018
  End date: May 21, 2018 

July

• Tish’a B’Av (The ninth day of Av, with a fast commemorating the destruction of the two Temples)
  Start date: July 22, 2018

September

• Rosh Hashanah (New Year)
  Start date: September 10, 2018
  End date: September 11, 2018

• Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
  Start date: September 19, 2018

• Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)
  Start date: September 24, 2018
  End date: September 30, 2018

October

• Shmini Atzeret (Eighth Day of Assembly)
  Start date: October 1, 2018

• Simchat Torah
  Start date: October 2, 2018

• Yom HaAliyah (Israeli Immigrants Day)
  Start date: October 16, 2018

November

• Sigd (Ethiopian Jewish holiday)
  Start date:  November 7, 2018

December

• Hanukkah (Known as the Festival of Lights)
  Start date: December 3, 2018
  End date: December 10, 2018