All employees are entitled to vacation days according to law. This is mandatory for all employers in Israel.
The Annual Vacation law specifically states in paragraph 5 the days that shall not be counted as an employee’s annual vacation days:
1) Holidays (days that are not work days because of the holiday, but would have been if it weren’t a holiday). Shabbat, for example, is an off-day anyhow so it doesn’t count as a paid holiday. In shift work or places of employment where Shabbat is a workday, obviously this would apply to Shabbat as well, but might not apply to a weekday that was the employee’s off-day in place of the Shabbat.
The Holidays are:
2 days Rosh Hashana
Yom Kippur
1st day of Sukkot
Simchat Torah
1st and 7th days of Pesach
Shavuot
Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independance Day)
Note: Non-Jewish employees can choose whether to receive their holidays or Jewish Holidays, this via a signed declaration to the employer.
2) Miluim (active reserve duty in the IDF)
3) Advance notice upon termination/resignation.
4) Maternity leave
5) Sick Day absence
6) Bereavement leave
Moshe Egel-Tal, CSPP
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