Route brief · CHI → TLV
Chicago → Tel Aviv
$616
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 16 – Oct 9 · 23 nights
Ethiopian1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefTLVTel AvivBauhaus blocks, a beach in the middle of the city, and Jerusalem an hour away.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsBen Gurion (TLV)All routes into Tel AvivWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Tel Aviv: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 23-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $616 for 9,903 km each way, that works out to about $31 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Tel Aviv, this fare ranks 2nd — 14% above the $542 from Los Angeles. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago, where the middle fare is $774. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,057 then versus $1,025 now, across 7 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $616, on Sep 16.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 93 days priced, from 17 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Ben Gurion (TLV)
- Flight time
- ~18 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,903 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
CHI → TLV, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Tel Aviv?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Tel Aviv?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ethiopian. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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