{"id":2020,"date":"2025-01-25T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2025-01-25T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T08:16:28","slug":"kuwait-banks-to-close-for-isra-and-miraj-holiday-on-january-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/2025\/01\/25\/kuwait-banks-to-close-for-isra-and-miraj-holiday-on-january-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Banks to Close for Isra and Mi&#8217;raj Holiday on January 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kuwait Banking Association (KBA) has announced that local banks will remain closed on Thursday, January 30, in observance of Isra and Mi&#8217;raj. Sheikha Al-Essa, the KBA&#8217;s Deputy Secretary General, confirmed the closure aligns with the official holiday schedule for this occasion.<\/p><p>Banks are set to resume operations on Sunday, February 2, following guidelines from the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK).<\/p><p>During its weekly meeting on January 14, chaired by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Cabinet decided to suspend work across all ministries, government agencies, and public institutions on January 30 for the celebration. Official activities will recommence on February 2.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kuwait Banking Association (KBA) has announced that local banks will remain closed on Thursday, January 30, in observance of Isra and Mi&#8217;raj. Sheikha Al-Essa, the KBA&#8217;s Deputy Secretary General, confirmed the closure aligns with the official holiday schedule for this occasion. Banks are set to resume operations on Sunday, February 2, following guidelines from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kuwait-en"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}