Easily manage employment in Israel

All employees in Israel with a five-day workweek are entitled to a minimum of 12 days leave per year. Employees with a six-day workweek are entitled to 14 days of leave per year. After four years of employment, the number of holiday days goes up by two per year. An employee can accumulate a maximum of 28 holiday days. There are also nine paid public holidays. Israel also observes four additional holidays where, though not mandatory, many businesses and government offices offer collective or optional paid leave.

Expecting mothers are entitled to 14 weeks of paid leave with 100% compensation, with an additional 12 weeks unpaid. Weeks 6-14 can be taken by the father instead of the mother.

In Israel, the father can take paid leave instead of the mother, starting from the sixth week after the beginning of her maternity leave and ending after the 14th week.

Sick leave in Israel is accrued at a rate of 1.5 days per month with a maximum of 90 days total.- For the first day of sick leave, the employee is not entitled to pay.- On the second and third day, the employee is entitled to 50% of their regular pay.- From the fourth day onward, the employee is entitled to 100% of their regular pay.

- Bereavement Leave: In the event of the death of an immediate family member, the employee is entitled to a number of paid grief days determined by the standard of the employee’s community. This leave is capped at seven days. Employees must be a member of a community with a standard seven-day grieving period to be entitled to the full seven days, although this rule is flexible in certain cases. The grief period during which the employee is absent from work is fully paid and is not to be deducted from the employee’s annual holiday or sick leave allowance. Employees become eligible for bereavement leave in Israel after three months of employment.