Academic Calendar 2016/2017

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10
October
Rosh
Hashana
Eve
Rosh Hashana Fast of
Gedaliah -
No Exams
Orientation
Day & Winter
Semester
Opening
Ceremony
Yom
Kippur
Eve
Yom
Kippur
Sukkot Sukkot
Eve
Chol Hamoed Sukkot Hoshana Shmini
Raba Atzeret &
Simchat
Torah
First day of
2016/2017
Academic
Year

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11
November
Yitzhak Rabin
Memorial
Ceremony
(Recess
between 12:30-
13:30)
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12 Employment Hanukah Hanukah Hanukah Hanukah Hanukah Hanukah

Hanukah
Fair Christmas Outstanding
No Exams Employees
December Ceremony

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1
2017

Festive End Festive End Last Day Start of Winter

Hanukah Retirement 10th of Tevet Welcoming
of Winter of Winter Semester
Ceremony Fast Ceremony of Winter
New Faculty Semester Semester Semester Exams 1st
No Exams
January
Concert Concert Period

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2
February
Outstanding
Lecturers
Ceremony
End of Winter
Semester
Exams 1st
Period
Semester
Break
Semester
Break
Semester
Break
Semester
Break
Semester
Break
Start of
Winter
Semester
Exams 2nd
Period

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3
March
Ta'anit
Esther
No Exams
Purim Shushan
Purim
Orientation Day &
Spring Semester
Opening
Ceremony
End of Winter
Semester
Exams 2nd
First Day
of Spring
Semester

Period

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4April
Passover Holiday
Holocaust

Eve
Afternoon
Holocaust
Memorial Day Memorial Day
(No Exams;
No Exams in the Recess Between
9:30-10:30)
Employment
Fair
Memorial Day
Eve
(No Exams;
Recess Between
12:30-13:30;
Classes End
at 18:30)
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5May
Memorial
Day
Yom
HaAtzmaut
(Independence
Day)
Deadline
for Degree
Approval
No Exams
After
14:30
Student
Day
No Exams
Jerusalem
Day
Honorary
Doctor
Ceremony
Shavuot Shavuot
Eve

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6June
Master
Degree
Ceremony
Pre Board of
Governors
Board of
Governors
Opening
Ceremony
Board of Governors
Honorary
Doctorate
Conferment
Ceremony
MD Degree
Ceremony
Presidents
List
Ceremony
Undergraduate
Degree
Ceremony

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7July
Festive End
of Spring
Semester
Concert
Festive End
of Spring
Semester
Concert & Last
Day of Spring
Semester
Outstanding Start of Spring
Teaching Semester
Assistants
Ceremony
Exams
1th Period
17 B'Tamuz
Fast
No Exams
End of Spring
Semester
Exams 1st
Period

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8
August
9 B'Av Fast First Day
of Summer
Semester

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9
September
Start of Spring
Semester Exams
2nd Period
Last Day of Start of Summer
Summer Semester
Semester
Exams
1st Period
Rosh
Hashana
Eve
Rosh Hashana
Fast of
Gedaliah -
No Exams
Yom Yom
Kippur Kippur
Eve

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10
October
Sukkot
Eve
Work Ends at
12:30
Sukkot Chol Hamoed Sukkot Hoshana Shmini
Raba Atzeret &
Simchat
Torah
Orientation
Day & Winter
Semester
Opening
Ceremony
End of Summer
Semester
Exams 1st
Period & End
of Spring
Semester
Exams 2nd
First day of
2017/2018
Academic
Year
Period