1 adult, Sep 27 – Oct 1, 2026 — cheapest overall wins. Flight duration capped at <6h (nonstop or 1-stop). Prices refreshed 10 Sep 2026.
Includes flying direct from Berlin (BER) and taking a bus to a nearby airport first — only Prague (PRG) turned out to have a competitive sub-6h connection to TLV; see excluded airports below. Cheapest overall: Sep 28, Berlin, Israir nonstop, 4h, €198 / ₪696 — no bus, no connection. This is also the best direct-from-Berlin fare. Cheapest via a nearby airport: Sep 27, Prague, nonstop 3h45m, €231 / ₪812 — but add a ~4h20m / ~€23 Berlin→Prague bus, so it's more expensive door-to-door than just flying from Berlin right now. Since v1.1: Berlin fares fell (Sep 28 €207→€198, Sep 27 €249→€214); Prague's cheap €200 1-stop is gone (Sep 27 now €231), and Prague generally repriced upward.
Rate/fares are live off Google Flights just now, 1 adult, economy. ILS conversion at 1 EUR ≈ ₪3.52 (10 Sep 2026 rate) — reconfirm at checkout. Checked-bag fees not verified — Bluebird/Israir/Smartwings are low-cost carriers, bags are almost certainly extra. Bus fare is FlixBus's advertised "from" price, not a locked quote.
Top 8 cheapest options found, Sep 27 – Oct 1, sorted by price. All under 6h flight time. Refreshed 10 Sep 2026.
Nearby airports checked and excluded: Leipzig (LEJ, ~2h05m bus) and Dresden (DRS, ~2h25m bus) — these were your named examples, but neither is actually a 4–5h bus ride (they're much closer); more importantly, neither has an economy-class flight to TLV under 6h — cheapest sub-6h options were €930+ business class. Nuremberg (NUE, ~4h15m bus — genuinely in your 4–5h band) and Wrocław (WRO, ~4h30m bus — also genuinely in-band) both route through hubs with 8h+ layovers; no viable sub-6h fare found at either. Only Prague (PRG, ~4h20m bus) had real direct low-cost service to TLV.