Flights from Manila to Tel Aviv — Schedule, Carriers, Best Time

Manila (MNL) to Tel Aviv (TLV) is the Philippines’ main Israel corridor, flown by El Al via a Bangkok tag with around 3 weekly departures and an 11-hour total block. Off-peak roundtrip economy fares sit between PHP 45,000-72,000, climbing during Pesach (Jewish Passover, March-April) at Christmas Holy Land pilgrimage. Israel hosts ~30,000+ Filipino caregivers — the country’s largest foreign-worker group — making this a key OFW + Catholic pilgrimage route.

Route at a glance

3 one-way departures a week are catalogued on MNL–TLV, flown by El Al, with a scheduled block of 11.0 hours. The cheapest one-way in our cache is ₱29,317. 3 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 1 carrier on file.

This corridor carries a demand score of 7/10 in our route file and is flagged as a migrant-worker corridor. El Al via BKK; demand from caregivers. Read that number for what it is: an editorial 1-10 ranking of estimated Filipino-language search interest, built for prioritising which pages we research first. It is not a passenger count, not a load factor, and not a quality signal about the airlines involved. High-scoring corridors are the ones where seats on the cheapest fare classes disappear first and where the gap between an early booking and a two-week-out booking is widest; low-scoring corridors tend to hold their price longer but give you fewer departures to choose from if a plan slips.

• Distance & duration: ~11 hours total via BKK tag (passengers stay onboard); 13-15h via Gulf hubs.
• Carriers connecting: El Al (LY) via BKK; Emirates (EK) via DXB; Etihad (EY) via AUH; Turkish Airlines (TK) via IST.
• Frequency: ~3 weekly El Al direct, plus multi-daily one-stop via Gulf hubs.
• Travel profile: OFW caregiver-dominant + Holy Land pilgrimage tourism + diaspora visits.

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Best time to book

₱29,317 is the cheapest MNL–TLV one-way in this site’s fare cache. It is a cache floor for one date and fare class, not a held quote. Across 3 cached departure months the floor ranged ₱25,479 to ₱40,182.

We take one reading a week and keep it. Over 6 of them the low was ₱29,317 in 2026-W31 and the high ₱47,878 — a 1.6× swing on an unchanged route, which is the single most useful thing this series says. Week to week the last move was down ₱18,561 (39%) from 2026-W30 to 2026-W31. Method, so you can discount it properly: each point is the cheapest one-way the feed could see in that ISO week, not a booked price and not an average of the market, and a week where the poll caught a promotional seat reads lower than the week either side of it. Judge a fare against the band rather than any single point. A fare inside the lower third of that band is a good one on this pair; a fare above the top of it is worth re-checking a week later before you commit.

Cheapest pockets are mid-January through February at September through early November, when fares dip to PHP 45,000-58,000 roundtrip. Avoid Pesach/Passover (mid-March to mid-April), Jewish High Holidays (Rosh Hashanah + Yom Kippur in late September), at Christmas Holy Land pilgrimage (mid-Dec to early Jan). Pinoy caregivers cluster their vacation leave around Pasko, kasi rare ang break — peak ang fares. Emirates via DXB is consistently most affordable at sometimes 20-25% mas mura than El Al direct. Book 3-4 months ahead po; ETA-Israel processing is fast (~1-3 days online) pero best to apply early.

Carriers compared

1 carrier — El Al — is catalogued nonstop on MNL–TLV, filing about 3 one-way departures a week. ₱29,317 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02. 6 weekly fare snapshots are held for this pair, the most recent from 2026-W31.

A single nonstop operator changes the arithmetic in two directions. On price, there is no competitive floor on the nonstop: the cheapest seats open and close on El Al’s own inventory cycle, so the usual advice to wait for a fare war does not apply — connecting itineraries on other carriers are the only real competition, and they cost you hours. On disruption, a cancellation has nowhere obvious to go. With one operator there is no same-day sister flight unless the frequency itself is high, and rebooking onto a competitor requires an interline or alliance link. If your dates are fixed — a reporting date, a contract start, a family event — the risk-managed choice on this pair is an earlier departure with a day of slack behind it, not the cheapest one closest to the deadline.

Fare bracket (peso-first)

₱29,317 is the cheapest MNL–TLV one-way in this site’s fare cache. It is a cache floor for one date and fare class, not a held quote. Across 3 cached departure months the floor ranged ₱25,479 to ₱40,182.

This is the trap the word direct sets. A nonstop MNL–TLV is catalogued at 11.0 hours of block time, but the lowest fare in our cache carries an elapsed time of 64.1 hours — the difference is a connection, and on a gap that size, quite possibly an overnight one. In airline language direct only promises that the flight number does not change; it can still touch down somewhere, and a through fare built on two flight numbers is not direct at all. Before you take the cheaper number, price the layover: a night you have to sleep somewhere, a transit visa you may need for the intermediate country, a second security screening, and the risk that a delay on leg one turns leg two into a rebooking. Sometimes the saving is still worth it. Decide that on purpose, not by sorting on price alone.

• Low (Jan-Feb, Sep-early Nov): PHP 45,000-58,000 (ILS 2,945-3,795 / USD 805-1,035).
• Mid (May-Jun, late Oct): PHP 60,000-78,000 (ILS 3,925-5,105 / USD 1,070-1,395).
• Peak (Pesach Mar-Apr, Christmas pilgrimage, Jewish High Holidays Sep): PHP 95,000-135,000 (ILS 6,215-8,830 / USD 1,695-2,410).

OFW-specific notes

1 classification applies here: MNL–TLV is flagged as a migrant-worker corridor in our route file. Departure clearance is a Department of Migrant Workers process, separate from anything the airline controls. 3 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 1 carrier on file.

Kabayan caregiver, Israel’s Filipino community is the country’s largest foreign-worker group — concentrated in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, at Be’er Sheva. Most are caregivers under the “Heter” / B-1 work visa via licensed manpower agencies. Emirates’ 30 kg + 15 kg OFW uplift (45 kg total) is hard to beat for Pasko balikbayan returns, kasi mas malaki kaysa El Al’s 23 kg. Always carry your B-1 work permit, employer letter, at OEC. From TLV, the Israel Railways Ben Gurion-Ha’Hagana train direct sa Tel Aviv center in 18 minutes (~PHP 270 / ILS 17). Pasalubong tip: kosher products at Israeli wines fine sa PH customs; iwasan ang fresh dairy. Pinoy gathering hubs: Tel Aviv’s Levinski Market and HaTikva neighborhood every Sunday (rare day off para sa caregivers).

Entry rules for a Philippine passport in Israel

1 entry condition is recorded for Israel on a Philippine passport: visa-free. Confirm it against the destination’s own immigration portal before booking. 3 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 1 carrier on file. ₱29,317 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

Our destination file records entry for Israel as visa-free for a Philippine passport. That single word carries more weight than it looks. Where a visa is required, the lead time on the application — not the fare — is what fixes your booking window, and buying a non-refundable ticket before the visa is issued is the most common expensive mistake on corridors like this one. Where entry is visa-free or visa-on-arrival, the permission is still conditional: officers routinely ask for an onward ticket, an address, and evidence you can fund the stay, and a visa-free stamp can be refused. Transit adds another layer again — the rule that matters in a connecting airport belongs to the transit country, not to your destination. Visa rules change frequently. Use this as a starting reference only; verify with the destination’s embassy or official immigration portal before booking. For OFW employment visas, follow the DMW deployment process — that is separate from tourist/visit visas.

Delays and cancellations: what actually applies on MNL–TLV

2 rulebooks cover MNL–TLV from the Philippine side: the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which governs the departure from a Philippine airport, and the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps liability for delay and baggage. Israel may operate its own scheme for departures from its airports; this page does not track it.

None of the statutory compensation schemes this site sources — EU261, UK261, the Saudi GACA regulation, Canada’s APPR and the US DOT consumer rules — reaches MNL–TLV. Read that as a statement about our source list, not as a finding that Israel has no rules of its own: states routinely regulate departures from their own airports, and the civil aviation authority of Israel is the body to check before you conclude that nothing applies. What definitely does apply in both directions is the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps a carrier’s liability for delay and for baggage that is damaged, delayed or lost. Montreal reimburses proven loss up to a cap; it pays no fixed sum for the inconvenience itself, so keep receipts rather than counting hours.

On the Manila end, a flight departing a Philippine airport is covered by the Air Passenger Bill of Rights administered by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which obliges the carrier to offer rebooking or a refund and to provide amenities as a delay lengthens. Its shape matters: refunds and service obligations, not a tariff of cash compensation — do not plan a claim around a fixed sum.

Cheapest and dearest months observed on MNL–TLV

3 departure months are cached for MNL–TLV. The cheapest is October 2026 at ₱25,479 and the dearest August 2026 at ₱40,182 — a 1.6× spread on the same city pair. ₱29,317 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.

Across the 3 departure months we hold for this pair (October 2026 through August 2026 in the cache), the cheapest reading is ₱25,479 in October 2026 and the most expensive ₱40,182 in August 2026. Two caveats keep that honest. First, each month contributes one number — the cheapest one-way the feed found in that month — so this is a floor-by-floor comparison, not an average fare by month, and a month with thin coverage can read artificially low. Second, the months are not a forecast: they describe inventory that was loaded when we polled. What the shape is genuinely useful for is ranking your own flexible dates. If your trip can move by three or four weeks, the difference between the cheapest and dearest month here is larger than almost any discount code will ever be.

FAQ

7 questions below are answered from the route, carrier and fare records this site holds for MNL–TLV. Cache readings are labelled as cache readings, and any rule with exceptions is answered with the exceptions attached. 3 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 1 carrier on file.

Tel Aviv as an arrival point

4 facts identify the arrival airport on this pair: TLV is Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV/LLBG); the local currency is ILS; region Middle East; OFW relevance rated high.

On arrival you are landing at Ben Gurion International Airport, ICAO LLBG, serving Tel Aviv, Israel. Caregiver corridor; El Al via BKK; visa-free 90 days. Across the whole Philippine market, El Al are the carriers our destination file records as serving Tel Aviv from home — a wider set than the ones flying this particular pair, which is why a Manila routing sometimes opens options Manila does not have. One habit worth forming on any arrival: read the airport, not the city name. Big metro areas usually have several airports, and the cheapest fare tends to land at the most distant one — where the transfer into town can cost more than the fare saved. Check which airport your fare actually lands at before you compare two prices, and if you are connecting onward from a different airport in the same city, treat that as a separate journey with its own buffer — no airline protects a connection that involves a taxi.

What is the cheapest Manila to Tel Aviv fare on record here? ₱29,317 one-way — the lowest price the fare feed returned for MNL–TLV when this route was last polled on 2026-08-02. That is the minimum of one record for one route, not of the whole cache: a floor for a single date and fare class, not a held quote, and it excludes checked baggage where the carrier sells it separately.

How much do MNL–TLV fares move week to week? Across 6 weekly snapshots from 2026-W19 to 2026-W31 the cheapest one-way ranged ₱29,317 to ₱47,878. Each point is the lowest fare visible that week, not an average of the market.

Can I claim delay compensation on MNL–TLV? Not under any scheme this site sources. The fallback is the carrier’s conditions of carriage plus Montreal Convention 1999 liability limits, and Israel’s own civil aviation authority is worth checking for departures from its airports. Separately, a departure from a Philippine airport is covered by the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which mandates rebooking, refunds and amenities but sets no fixed cash scale.

Magkano ang ticket Manila to Tel Aviv? Roughly PHP 45,000-72,000 (ILS 2,945-4,710 / USD 805-1,285) off-peak; peak hits PHP 95,000-135,000.

May direct flight ba? El Al via BKK tag (3x weekly). Multi-daily Gulf options (Emirates, Etihad, Turkish) usually mas mura.

Visa-free ba ang Pinoy sa Israel? Oo — 90 days visa-free for tourism, with new ETA-Israel pre-registration. OFW caregivers under B-1 work visa.

Para saan ito — OFW o tourism? Mostly OFW caregiver corridor (~30,000 Pinoy), plus Holy Land pilgrimage.

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Updated 9 May 2026. FlyPilipinas is a 14-person Filipino editorial team; content is researched and edited by Filipino travel and OFW specialists. About the author →.