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:: Country:  Israel
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:: Language: Hebrew
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:: Author:   John Layt <john@layt.net>
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:: Updated:  2010-05-28
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:: Source:   Copy-and-paste from Wikipedia, please correct any errors!
::           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Israel
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:: Metadata
country     "IL"
language    "he"
:name        "optional - defaults to country name"
:description "(please add description in source language) National holiday file for Israel"

:: Public Holidays
: Rosh Hashanah (New Year)
"ראש השנה"                                              weekend on hebrew tishrey 1 length 2 days
: Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
"יום כיפור"                                             weekend on hebrew tishrey 10
: Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)
"סוכות"                                                 weekend on hebrew tishrey 15
: Simchat Torah (Assembly of the Eighth Day)
"שמחת תורה"                                             weekend on hebrew tishrey 22
: Pesach (Passover)
"פסח"                                                   weekend on hebrew nisan 15
: Shvi'i shel Pesach (Seventh day of Passover)
"שביעי של פסח"                                          weekend on hebrew nisan 21
: Yom Ha'atzmaut (Independence Day)
: If falls on a Friday or Saturday, move to preceeding Thursday, if falls on a Monday move to Tuesday
"יום העצמאות"                                           weekend on hebrew ( (([iyar 5] == [friday after ([iyar 5])]) ||
                                                                             ([iyar 5] == [saturday after ([iyar 5])])) ?
                                                                                 [thursday before ([iyar 5])] :
                                                                             (([iyar 5] == [monday after ([iyar 5])]) ?
                                                                                 [tuesday after ([iyar 5])] :
                                                                             [iyar 5] ) )
: Shavuot (Pentecost)
"שבועות"                                                weekend on hebrew sivan 6

:: Religious Holidays
: Tsom Gedalyah ben Ahikam (Fast Day of Gedaliah ben Ahikam)
"צום גדליה"                                                on hebrew tishrey 3
: Chol HaMoed (Feast of Tabernacles)
"חול המועד סוכות"                                          on hebrew tishrey 16 length 6 days
: Hanukkah (Feast of Rededication)
"חנוכה"                                                    on hebrew kislev 25 length 8 days
: Tsom Asarah b-Tevet (Tenth of Tevet Fast)
"צום עשרה בטבת"                                            on hebrew tevet 10
: Tu Bishvat (Fifteenth of Shvat)
"טו בשבט"                                                  on hebrew shvat 15
: Ta`anit Ester (Fast of Esther)
"תענית אסתר"                                               on hebrew adar 13
: Purim (Feast of Esther)
"פורים"                                                    on hebrew adar 14
: Chol HaMoed Pesach (Passover)
"חול המועד פסח"                                            on hebrew nisan 16 length 5 days
: Lag Ba'omer (33rd day of the `Omer)
"לג בעומר"                                                 on hebrew iyar 18
: Tsom Shiva` Asar b-Tamuz (Seventeenth of Tamuz fast)
"שבעה עשר בתמוז"                                           on hebrew tamuz 17
: Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av fast/Destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples)
"תשעה באב"                                                 on hebrew av 9
: Tu B'Av (Fifteenth of Av/Festival of Love)
"טו באב"                                                   on hebrew av 15

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:: Cultural
: Yom Hazikaron le Yitzhak Rabin (Yitzhak Rabin's Remembrance Day)
"יום הזיכרון ליצחק רבין"                                   on hebrew heshvan 12
: Yom Hazikaron LaShoah VeLaGevurah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
"יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה"                                on hebrew nisan 27
: Victory Day
"יום הניצחון על גרמניה הנאצית"                             on may 9
: Yom Hazikaron (Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day)
: Is always the day before Yom Ha'atzmaut
"יום הזיכרון לחללי מערכות ישראל ונפגעי פעולות האיבה"       on hebrew ( (([iyar 5] == [friday after ([iyar 5])]) ||
                                                                        ([iyar 5] == [saturday after ([iyar 5])])) ?
                                                                            [wednesday before ([iyar 5])] :
                                                                        (([iyar 5] == [monday after ([iyar 5])]) ?
                                                                            [iyar 5] :
                                                                        [iyar 4] ) )
: Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)
"יום ירושלים"                                              on hebrew iyar 28

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