Hi! This is my first post on flyertalk...

I'm planning on spending Christmas in Sweden this year, so I was browsing and shopping for options because I want to book early and get cheaper prices... Long story short, Jordan sucks when it comes to travelling and it costs an absolute fortune to travel anywhere.

By complete chance I found out that I can get a flight that will cost me almost the fifth of what I would pay if I left from Israel instead, which is like only a couple of hours drive from where I live...

My question is, can I apply for a Schengen visa from Jordan, go to Israel and fly to Sweden from there?

Just to give you some perspective, actually paying for a tourist visa to Israel, travelling there, booking a hotel for 13 days for the purpose of getting the visa, and then flying to Sweden would still cost me almost half of what I would pay for simply booking a ticket from Jordan to Sweden directly XD