·        April 4 - Easter Sunday

·        April 4-5 – Isru Hag*

·        April 11-12 – Holocaust Memorial Day

·        April 18-19 – Israel Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron)

·        April 20 – Independence Day

·        May 2 – Lag B’omer

·        May 18-19 – Shavuot*

·        July 20 – Tishaa Be’av

·        August 12 – Beginning of Ramadan

·        September 8-10 - Rosh Hashanah* (Jewish New Year)

·        September 10 – Eid-ul-Fitr

·        September 17-18 - Yom Kippur**

·        September 22-3 – Sukkot*

·        September 29-30 - Simchat Torah*

·        November 17 - Eid-ul-Adha

·        December 2 – Hanukkah

·        December 24-5 - Christmas

 

 2011:

·        January 20 – Tu B’Shvat

·        March 20 – Purim

·        April 17 – Palm Sunday

·        April 18-19 - Passover*

·        April 24 - Easter Sunday

·        April 24-5 – Isru Hag*

 

*No public transportation. Two-day holidays begin on the afternoon of the first day (Erev Hag) and end on the evening of the second day. During this time public transportation stops running.

Taxi services operate all year long, including holidays.

** No Public Transportation, including taxi services.

 

Police - 100

Ambulance service - 101

Fire department - 102

 

 

 

Calling to Israel - 972 + local area code (minus zero) + subscriber number

 

For example, if you want to call 03-5161111, so from abroad you would dial 972-3-5161111 and within Israel you would dial 03-5161111.