Talk:Public holidays in Israel

message: Question:
Israel seems to have 22 National Holidays. Do government employees get the day off for all of them? Does the private sector take all of them off?
I'm going to guess Christmas isn't a Holiday in Israel?
what day is christmas?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.255.157.10 (talk) 15:22, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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message: :Partial duplicate of posting at . Eliminating here to consolidate the discussion in one location. StevenJ81 (talk) 13:47, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Israeli Days of Remembrance and Jabotinsky & Herzl Days 

message: Alana, I'm thinking the lead of this article could stand a revision. Do you want to take a stab at that? StevenJ81 (talk) 00:14, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Here is a stab. Feel free to play with it as well. BTW, I think "Shabbat" is a must add to this list.
Public holidays in Israel refers to national holidays officially recognized by the Knesset, Israel's parliament. The State of Israel has adopted most traditional religious Jewish holidays as part of its national calendar, while also having established new modern holiday observances since its founding in 1948. Of the religious and modern holidays below, some are bank holidays / federal holidays requiring all schools, government institutions, financial sector, and retailers to be closed, while other holidays are marked as days of note or memorial remembrances with no breaks in public or private sector activities.
As is the case with all religious Jewish holidays, most public holidays in Israel generally begin and end at sundown, and follow the Hebrew calendar. Because of this, most holidays in Israel fall on a different Gregorian calendar date each year, which syncs every 19 years with the Hebrew calendar.
Shabbat, the weekly Sabbath day of rest, in Israel begins every Friday evening just before sundown, ending Saturday evening just after sundown. Most of the Israeli workforce, including schools, banks, public transportation, government sector, and retailers are shut down during these approximately 25 hours.
Alanadrubin (talk) 11:51, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

text: There are a couple of things I'll probably edit, but mostly this is good. However, I think you need to hedge a bunch of this by pointing out that most of this description applies to Jewish Israel, not necessarily Arab Israel. And we probably should add a couple of the observances of Arab Israel into the list. Since I don't know exactly how that works there, could you take a swing at that, too? Thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:00, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Respectfully, this list applies to the State of Israel, those holidays that the Knesset legally codified into the law of the nation in fact. There are lots of non-Jews in Israel; Muslims, Ba'hai, Christian etc... but only Jewish holidays have been made legally part of Israel's national calendar. Just as in the US and most of Europe, X-Mas is an official national holiday, but Hannukah never is...same with Easter vs Pesach. Since Israel is the nation state of the Jewish People, all minority religions and holidays are respected (Eid/Ramadan/X-mas/Easter etc...), but not elevated to any official government state status, thus certainly not factually "Public Holidays in Israel" for the purposes of our objective and carefully referenced Wiki page on the subject. - Good Shabbos, I hope you understand. Alanadrubin (talk) 13:31, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: In turns of what days to include, fair enough. In terms of describing that "schools, retailers, transportation" (whatever) shuts down, those points do not necessarily hold true in Arab communities. So you do need to incorporate that piece of information into the article. Good Shabbos. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:49, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair point ;-) 14:53, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
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