Flights from Philippines to Israel — Visa, Best Time, Routes

Ang Israel ay high OFW corridor — predominantly caregivers for elderly Israelis, estimated 50,000+ kabayan nationwide. El Al (LY) ang only direct carrier with MNL-TLV via Bangkok tag, 3x weekly. Visa-free 90 days for tourism, B-1 work visa for caregivers. Off-peak roundtrip economy: PHP 55,000-78,000.

Visa for Philippine passport holders

1 corridor are catalogued between the Philippines and Israel, from 1 Philippine airports.

Delay and cancellation rights on Philippines–Israel flights

2 rulebooks cover Philippines–Israel itineraries 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 Philippines–Israel itineraries. 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. It is a service and refund standard rather than a compensation tariff, so the outcome is rebooking, a refund and amenities rather than a set payment.

Philippine passport holders enjoy 90 days visa-free entry to Israel for tourism, business, religious pilgrimage, at family visit. Stamp lang sa Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) — actually a printed entry slip lieu of passport stamp, dahil isang Arab/Muslim country may refuse entry kapag may Israel stamp. Required: passport 6-month validity, return ticket, proof of accommodation, at financial means. Para sa OFW caregivers, ang B-1 work visa ang ruta — sponsored by licensed Israeli manpower agency, processed in coordination with POEA-accredited Philippine recruitment partner. Initial contract usually 2 years extendable to 5, salary ~ILS 6,000-7,500/month. Holy Land pilgrims often go on tour-package basis with religious group leaders. Always verify current requirements with the Israel Embassy.

This is general information based on public consular guidance — verify current requirements with the Israel embassy or your travel agent before booking. Not legal advice.

Routes from PH airports

1 corridor connect 1 Philippine airports to 1 airport in Israel, about 3 one-way departures a week in total.

Origins on file: MNL. Arrival airports: TLV. Carriers: El Al. The distribution matters more than the totals. Where several Philippine origins reach Israel directly, a provincial departure can beat a Manila one once the domestic positioning flight and its hotel night are priced in. Where only Manila has the nonstop, everyone routes through the same building and the same weather, and your connection buffer should reflect that. Count the arrival airports too: more than one usually means the cheap fare goes to the secondary field, and the ground transfer from it is a cost the fare comparison never shows you.

El Al ang only carrier with semi-direct service — MNL-BKK-TLV tag flight, 3x weekly. Alternative: connect via DOH (Qatar Airways) o DXB (Emirates) — minsan mas mura at mas frequent options.

Best time to fly

1 Philippines–Israel corridors carry a live fare reading, the cheapest at ₱29,317 one-way. Every reading is a cache floor for a single date and fare class, excluding checked baggage where it is sold separately.

On a daily corridor the cheapest fare classes refill as new inventory opens, so a booking made a month out and one made two months out often land in a similar band, and a disruption has an obvious recovery — tomorrow’s flight. On a corridor operating a handful of times a week the arithmetic inverts: the cheap classes are a fixed, small number of seats per departure, they sell in order, and there is no next flight to fall back on for days. The practical rule for Israel is therefore to set your lead time from the frequency of the specific corridor you intend to fly rather than from a general ‘book X weeks ahead’ figure, and on the thin corridors to buy the departure with slack behind it rather than the one closest to the date you must arrive.

Cheapest pockets are late January through February at mid-September through October (post-Sukkot), with PHP 55,000-65,000 roundtrip on El Al. Avoid Holy Week (March-April Easter) — pilgrim traffic from Pilipinas spikes fares to PHP 95,000-120,000. Jewish High Holidays (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot — September-October) also tightens seats. Pasko-New Year (Dec 15-Jan 5) busy with caregiver vacations. Spring (March-May) magagandang panahon sa Holy Land sites; summer (Jun-Aug) sobrang init sa Negev at Dead Sea. Book 12-16 weeks ahead.

Currency & on-the-ground budget tips

1 Philippines–Israel corridors carry a live fare reading, the cheapest at ₱29,317 one-way. Every reading is a cache floor for a single date and fare class, excluding checked baggage where it is sold separately.

Three separate exchange rates touch a single Israel trip and confusing them is what makes a budget wrong. The first is the airline’s own rate, applied when a fare filed in another currency is displayed to you in pesos — it moves slowly and is already baked into the price you compare. The second is your card issuer’s rate at the moment of purchase, plus whatever foreign-transaction fee your bank charges, which is why the peso figure on your statement rarely equals the peso figure on the booking page. The third is the rate you get on the ground in ILS. The one to refuse outright is dynamic currency conversion — the terminal or booking page offering to charge you in pesos instead of the local currency. It looks like a convenience and is priced as a service; paying in ILS and letting your own issuer convert is almost always cheaper.

ILS 1 ≈ PHP 17.30 as of May 2026. Budget kabayan: PHP 4,500-6,000 per day sa Tel Aviv (hostel, sherut taxi, falafel + shawarma street meals). Mid-range: PHP 9,000-13,500 (3-star hotel, sit-down meals). Israel ang one of more expensive Middle East destinations — Tel Aviv among top-30 globally for cost-of-living. Jerusalem at Galilee mas mura kaysa coastal Tel Aviv. Cash ILS + Visa/Mastercard universal; tipping 10-15% expected.

OFW corridor notes

1 of the 1 Philippines–Israel corridors on file are classified as migrant-worker routes. The baggage uplift that comes with them is granted at check-in against documents, not by fare class.

The uplift is documentation-gated, not fare-gated: it is released at check-in against an OEC or OFW Pass, and it disappears in four predictable situations — a bags-free base fare with no allowance underneath it, a separately ticketed domestic feeder, a codeshare flown by a partner whose own rules govern, and an attempt to pool the allowance across a family where no pooling rule exists. Everything upstream of the airport belongs to the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Philippines, not to the carrier: an offload over paperwork is not an airline failure and no fare rule refunds it.

Israel ang ikatlong-pinakamalaking OFW corridor sa Middle East after Saudi Arabia at UAE — over 50,000 caregivers nationwide, predominantly female, taking care of elderly Israeli citizens. Vacation cycles: caregivers typically allowed 2-3 weeks home leave per year, often around Pasko/New Year o family emergencies. El Al’s BKK-tag is the kabayan favorite kasi familiar ang flight pattern at may Tagalog-speaking flight attendants on Manila-leg sectors. Banking remittance via BDO, BPI, at LBC — many caregivers send ILS 4,000-5,000 monthly to family. Manpower agencies sa Pasay at Cubao ang main recruitment hubs.

Every catalogued route to Israel

• Manila (MNL) → Tel Aviv (TLV) — LY · ~3/wk

1 corridor connect 1 Philippine airports to 1 airport in Israel, about 3 one-way departures a week in total.

Being specific about provenance is the only way a page like this earns trust, so: every figure above is read from a file in this project rather than from an airline’s marketing page. Frequencies are schedule estimates compiled from public timetable snapshots — Frequencies are estimates from public schedule data; flight hours are scheduled block times. Indirect-only corridors flagged where no nonstop exists. Flight hours are scheduled block times, gate to gate, not time in the air. Fares are cache floors: the lowest one-way the Travelpayouts feed returned for a pair at the moment it was polled, for one date and one fare class, excluding checked baggage where the carrier sells it separately. Baggage allowances and OFW uplifts come from the carrier programme records in this project and are the figure to confirm at booking, because an airline can change a programme without changing a timetable. Where a number is missing we leave it out rather than estimate it.

FAQ

1 Philippines–Israel corridors sit behind the answers below, drawn from this site’s own route, carrier, visa and fare files. Cache readings are labelled as such rather than presented as bookable quotes.

Every number on this page follows three conventions. Frequency is weekly one-way departures across all listed carriers, taken from published schedule snapshots, so it describes a typical week rather than a guarantee for your week — seasonal cuts and additions happen without the timetable being republished. Block time is gate to gate, not time in the air, which is why a connecting itinerary’s elapsed time can be several times the block figure. A catalogued corridor with no carrier means no nonstop is on file, not that the journey is impossible; it is flown with a connection, and the single decision that then matters is whether both legs sit on one ticket. One ticket gives you a through-checked bag, the airport’s published minimum connecting time as your protection, and re-accommodation if leg one runs late. Two tickets give you none of that. 1 of the corridors here operate four times a week or less, where a missed connection costs days rather than hours.

Visa-free ba ang Pinoy sa Israel? Oo po — 90 days visa-free for tourism. Caregivers need B-1 work visa via agency.

Magkano ang flight Manila to Tel Aviv? El Al via BKK tag ~PHP 55,000-78,000 roundtrip economy off-peak; peak hits PHP 90,000-120,000.

May direct flight ba sa Israel? El Al MNL-BKK-TLV, 3x weekly. Walang fully nonstop. ~11 hours block including stop.

Caregiver visa process — paano? B-1 work visa via POEA-accredited agency, contract 2 years extendable, ~ILS 6,000-7,500/month salary.

Sulit ba ang pilgrim package o DIY? Pilgrim package mas safe at structured for first-timers; DIY mas tipid pero need preparation sa security check-ins.

How many flights link the Philippines and Israel? 1 corridor are catalogued, from 1 Philippine airports to 1 airport in Israel.

Which airlines fly from the Philippines to Israel? 1 carrier are catalogued on Philippines–Israel corridors: El Al. Frequencies and block times differ by corridor, so check the individual route page before assuming a daily service.

What currency will I need in Israel? ILS. Fares on this site are shown in PHP, which is a conversion of the airline’s filed fare and not the amount your card issuer will finally charge; decline dynamic currency conversion and pay in the local currency where you are offered the choice.

Related

• Manila to Tel Aviv city pair guide →
• Manila airport (MNL) →
• OFW caregiver visa process →
• Holy Land pilgrim travel guide →

Updated 9 May 2026. About the author →.