Lower ping when using a VPN to another country

I live in Israel, I play on EU servers, and my usual ping is around 115ms.

For the past few days (maybe 4), it has been at 220 - 240 constantly, never lower than 215. No other games had this issue, and when I checked my ping to 8.8.8.8 (Google) it was the same as before (about 90ms).

I later tried to VPN to Germany (Frankfurt) using Windscribe, and my ping was at about 120ms.

Extra bit of info:
When I looked at the netgraph (in the Practice Range), when I wasn’t using a VPN I was connected to cdg1 and while I was using the VPN I was connected to ams1.

My friends (who are also from Israel) don’t have this problem, so I’m not sure whether me or Blizzard are the source of the problem.

I have almost the reverse issue… I want to be connected to cdg1 but I get connected to ams1 which gives me +100ms more ping (stable should I add)
With vpn to paris I get back on cdg1
I made a post for it