Ping from our Israeli nodes (AS206446, CLOUD LEASE) in Petah Tikva and Netanya sends ICMP echo requests and records round-trip time. Typical RTTs from these locations: Tel Aviv to Frankfurt ~52–60 ms, to Amsterdam ~58–66 ms, to London ~62–70 ms, to Paris ~55–63 ms, to New York ~128–138 ms, to Dubai ~25–35 ms, to Singapore ~145–165 ms. These baselines assume clean cable routing over FLAG or SEA-ME-WE capacity without congestion at the Israeli international gateway.

Running ping from both Israeli nodes simultaneously is useful for confirming consistency. Both nodes are in the same AS and metro area, so meaningfully different RTTs between the two on the same target would indicate a local routing difference — such as one node using a different upstream transit path — rather than a geographic difference. In practice, results from Petah Tikva and Netanya are within 2–4 ms of each other for most destinations.

ICMP rate-limiting at transit routers is common on paths from Israel toward Europe, particularly at the undersea cable landing stations where multiple carriers aggregate traffic. If ping from Israel shows higher RTT than expected but a TCP check on the same host completes at the expected speed, the difference is ICMP handling rather than real path congestion. Elevated ICMP RTT at one specific hop in an MTR trace without downstream loss confirms this.

Israel's internet infrastructure is concentrated in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, where the country's main IX facilities, data centers, and carrier hotels are located. IIX (Israel Internet Exchange) operates the primary peering fabric, used by domestic ISPs, content providers, and CDN PoPs. ISUOG serves as a secondary IX. Both are located within the Tel Aviv metro corridor, where the bulk of Israeli carrier and hosting infrastructure is physically housed. Petah Tikva and Netanya — the two cities hosting our probe nodes — are approximately 15 km apart and both fall within this metro concentration.

International connectivity from Israel exits almost entirely via undersea cables. The FLAG and SEA-ME-WE cable systems land at Haifa and Tel Aviv, providing primary capacity toward Europe through the Mediterranean. A secondary path runs overland via Egypt through the Sinai. The Tel Aviv-to-Frankfurt path runs approximately 50–60 ms on well-routed cable capacity. Tel Aviv to London sits around 60–68 ms. Tel Aviv to New York is approximately 125–135 ms over trans-Atlantic cable. These RTTs are competitive with Southern European locations, placing Israel within useful range of European CDN infrastructure.

Major Israeli carriers include Bezeq International (AS8551), which operates the main domestic fixed-line backbone, Partner Communications (AS12400), HOT Telecom (AS5486), and Cellcom. The commercial ISP and hosting market is served by additional providers including CLOUD LEASE (AS206446), which hosts both of our probe nodes. AS206446 is a cloud hosting and colocation provider with presence in Petah Tikva and Netanya, both served via Israeli domestic backbone with onward transit toward IIX and international gateways.

Israel has one of the highest average fixed-line broadband speeds in the region, driven by widespread fiber deployment and competitive ISP pricing. The Israeli market is unusually well-peered for its geographic location — proximity to Europe via undersea cable and active participation at IIX means many European CDN edges serve Israel with latency comparable to what Southern European users see. Akamai, Cloudflare, and AWS all maintain edge PoPs in the Tel Aviv region.

We operate two probe nodes in Israel — one in Petah Tikva and one in Netanya — both via CLOUD LEASE (AS206446). Having two nodes in the same AS and metro area means results are typically consistent, but running both simultaneously confirms that neither node has a local routing anomaly. For targets with Anycast or GeoDNS, both nodes should return identical or near-identical results given their geographic proximity and shared upstream.