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Here is a site with updated list of airlines flying or not flying:
https://www.passportcard.co.il/article/airlines-at-war/
in Hebrew

If it says, for example:
לא (כל הטיסות מבוטלות עד ל05.09)

It means as of now they are not flying until Dec. 5, not including, meaning they are set to restart on Dec 5.

Many airlines keep on pushing off the restart date.

Airlines flying and cities currently served to TLV - as of 11/11/24 (from the passportcard site, ones verified by the DDMS are in Blue)

ELAL - Network includes (not checked for active service): Europe: Vienna Brussels Sofia Zagreb Larnaca Paphos Prague Lyon Marseille Nice Paris Batumi Tbilisi Berlin Frankfurt Munich Athens Kefalonia Patras-Peloponnese Rhodes Santorini Sitia (Crete) Thessaloniki Budapest Dublin Milan Naples Rome Venice Chisinau Podgorica Tivat Amsterdam Krakow Warsaw Lisbon Porto Bucharest Moscow Belgrade Ljubljana Barcelona Madrid Geneva Zurich London
NA:  Toronto Boston Fort Lauderdale, Miami Area Los Angeles Miami New York
Arkia
IsraAir - Network includes (not checked for active service): Tel Aviv Athens Barcelona Batumi Berlin Bucharest Budapest Chisinau Dubai Larnaca Lisbon London Paphos Prague Rome Rovaniemi Sofia Tbilisi Tivat Varna Verona Warsaw Zanzibar (havent checked what is current)
Air Haifa
- Larnaca

Air Seychelles
Azimuth Airlines
Blue Bird Airways - Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Larnaka, Prague, Sofia, Vienna
Cyprus Airways - Larnaka
Ethiopian Airlines - Adis Ababa   
Etihad Airways - Abu Dahbi
FlyDubai - Dubai

Georgian Airways - Tibilisi
Hainan Airlines   - Shenzhen
HiSKy - Bucharest, Chisinau

Red Wings - Sochi, Zhukovskiy, Moskow
Smartwings -Prague
Tarom - Bucharest
Tus Airways -  Larnaka, Barcelona , Sofia, Vienna
   
Uzbekistan Airways

List sorted by destination airport code (for those who prefer this format) - Last updated 11/13 (12/15: added Aegean and Azerbaijan)
Note that daily refers to flights but not necessarily airlines. List derived from Ben Gurion flight boards but is only from Ben Gurion. Still, flights usually run both ways (anyone want to write this in, fine, but I'm done). Feel free to correct or add to the list, especially when an airline starts flying - but change the date the list was updated. North America in bold.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) - Ethiopian (Daily)
Sochi, Russia (AER) - Red Wings, Azimuth (Daily)
Amsterdam (AMS) - El Al (Daily)
Athens (ATH) - Arkia, El Al, Blue Bird, Israir, Aegean (Daily - as many as ten flights a day)
Abu Dhabi (AUH) - Etihad (Daily)
Barcelona (BCN) - El Al, Blue Bird (Daily except Saturday) (Israir?)
Belgrade, Serbia (BEG) - El Al (Sun D'Or) (Mon, Wed, Fri)
Berlin (BER) - Blue Bird, El Al, Israir (Daily except Saturday)
Bangkhok (BKK) - El Al (daily except Friday)
Boston (BOS) - El Al (Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday until March - from April: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday)
Budapest (BUD) - El Al, Arkia, Blue Bird, Israir (Daily except Saturday)
Batumi, Georgia (BUS) - Arkia, Israir, El Al (Daily)
Paris (CDG, see below for ORY) - Arkia, El Al (Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs)
Moscow (DME) - Red Wings, El Al (Most days)
Dubai (DXB) - Israir, Flydubai, Arkia, El Al (Daily, often more than 10x)
Newark (EWR) - El Al (Sun-Fri)
Rome (FCO) - El Al, Arkia, Israir (Sun-Fri)
Fort Lauderdale (FLL) - El Al (no November flights for sale, selling Mon and Fri in December)
Frankfurt (FRA) - El Al (Mostly sold out but you might get lucky)
Baku, Azerbaijan (GYD) - Azerbaijan Airlines (daily)
Phuket, Thailand (HKT) - El Al (Mon, Tues, Thurs)
JFK - El Al (Sun-Fri)
Chisinau, Moldova (KIV/RMO) - HiSky, FLYONE, El Al (Sun D'Or) (Daily except Fri)
Krakow (KRK) - El Al, Israir (currently Mon, Wed, Fri)
Los Angeles (LAX) - El Al (Sun-Fri)
Lanarca, Cyprus (LCA) - Tus, Arkia, Cyprus, Israir, Blue Bird, El Al (Sun D'Or), AirHaifa, Aegean
Liege, Belgium (LGG) - Shows on flight board as El Al (chartered) and Challenge, but I don't see any for sale on GF
London (LHR, see below for LTN) - El Al (Sun-Fri)
Lisbon (LIS) - El Al, limited dates
Ljubljana, Slovenia (LJU) - Shows on flight boars as Israir, but no flights for sale on GF
London (LTN, see above for LHR) - El Al, Israir (Daily)
Madrid (MAD) - El Al, limited dates (?)
Manchester (MAN) - Arkia (Monday, Thursday, last flight Monday Jan 6 25)
Miami (MIA) - El Al (Sun, Tues, Wed, Thurs)
Munich (MUC) - El Al (limited flights)
Milan (MXP) - Arkia, El Al (Sun, Tues, Thurs)
Tokyo (NRT) - El Al (currently Motzei Shabbos, Monday and Wed - next month no Mon)
Paris (ORY) - Transavia (listed on flight boards, but for sale only in December)
Bucharest (OTP) - El Al, Israir, Tarom, Bees, HiSky (Most days)
Paphos (PFO) - El Al (Sun D'Or), Israir (Random days)
Prague (PRG) - Arkia, Smartwings, Blue Bird, El Al, Israir (Daily)
Suceava, Romania - Bees (Sporadic schedule)
Thessaloniki (SKG) - El Al (Sun D'Or) (Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs)
Sofia, Bulgaria (SOF) - El Al, Arkia, Tus, Blue Bird, Israir (Many days)
Shenzen, China (SZX) - Hainan (sporadic)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (TAS) - Uzbekistan (Mon-Thurs)
Tbilisi, Georgia (TBS) - Arkia, Israir, El Al (Sun D'Or), Georgian (Daily)
Podgorica, Montenegro (TGD) - El AL (Sun D'Or) (Thursday, Sunday)
Vienna (VIE) - Tus, Arkia, Blue Bird (currently Mon, Wed, Fri)
Warsaw (WAW) - El Al, Israir, Arkia (Sun-Fri)
Zhukovsky, Russia - Red Wings (Sun, Tues, Thurs)
Zhurich - El Al (Sporadic availability)

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1100 on: May 08, 2024, 08:12:44 PM »
Plan it Rite arranging a charter flight JFK-TLV for this Monday 5/13. Price is $1369
https://www.planitrite.com/group-trips/flight-back-to-israel

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1101 on: May 09, 2024, 02:45:56 AM »
Looking to do a trip to TLV in Business with a stop in ZRH or MXP for a few days.
I dont want to recheck my luggage.
What's my best option?
Most stopovers more then 24 hours requires to recheck luggage even on a single ticket (Many airports have luggage storage lockers if you don't want to shlep them around)

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1102 on: May 09, 2024, 08:40:23 AM »
Did anyone get a cancellation yet for United TLV -EWR on May 30
I saw that just waiting for the cancelation to go through
Going to take a couple days.
I was able to reach out via chat and get rebooked before mine were cancelled, before they actually process the cancellations and alternate flights sell out.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1103 on: May 09, 2024, 01:16:49 PM »
Getting notifications for AC August flights being cancelled...

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1104 on: May 09, 2024, 01:59:45 PM »
https://www.planitrite.com/group-trips/flight-back-to-israel
I was looking at this and I see that before check out they add a 4% convenience fee for paying by CC. @chff Is it legal to do that in NY? Dan mentioned on DDMS that in NY the CC fee has to be disclosed up front...

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1105 on: May 09, 2024, 04:19:48 PM »
Illegal to not advertise the price including the fee. It's also illegal to charge more than the interchange rate they pay, 4% is a little suspicious

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1106 on: May 09, 2024, 05:42:58 PM »
Priceline rebooked my end of May TLV-LHR leg of a VS flight, switching it to LY.  However it took 3 or 4 different calls to their support line and almost 2 weeks to get it rebooked.  If I had booked directly with VS it would have been easier and less stressful...but Priceline was about half the price that VS was showing when I originally booked.

Cant seem to find this combo on Chase Travel for flights in June. Anyone seeing LY-VS for R/T from TLV-JFK?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1107 on: May 09, 2024, 06:28:09 PM »
Cant seem to find this combo on Chase Travel for flights in June. Anyone seeing LY-VS for R/T from TLV-JFK?
I have seen these combos on capital one travel in the past

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1108 on: May 12, 2024, 06:35:40 AM »
Plan it Rite arranging a charter flight JFK-TLV for this Monday 5/13. Price is $1369
Charter is cancelled!

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1109 on: May 12, 2024, 08:13:26 AM »

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1110 on: May 12, 2024, 11:35:44 AM »
Cant seem to find this combo on Chase Travel for flights in June. Anyone seeing LY-VS for R/T from TLV-JFK?

Its now back BH. Booked my daughter to fly from TLV on LY-VS in June and return in September.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1111 on: May 13, 2024, 03:36:11 PM »
Getting notifications for AC August flights being cancelled...
From who?
Seems abit early given they just cancelled July.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1112 on: May 13, 2024, 10:04:24 PM »
The notifications were from AC for flights on Aug 4.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1113 on: May 16, 2024, 04:46:09 PM »
Is KLM flying these days from TLV to AMS?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1114 on: May 16, 2024, 06:47:28 PM »
Is KLM flying these days from TLV to AMS?
It's for sale
A rumor went around earlier that they cancelled but I have not seen it officially yet

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1115 on: May 16, 2024, 11:35:11 PM »
Is KLM flying these days from TLV to AMS?
I have friend booked on KLM in August, and KLM rebooked them on AF

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1117 on: May 17, 2024, 05:49:44 AM »
So does that mean KLM is still flying until July 1?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1118 on: May 17, 2024, 08:06:05 AM »
So does that mean KLM is still flying until July 1?
Based on the account that posted this?
Have you seen it anywhere else?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #1119 on: May 21, 2024, 01:43:45 PM »
Have a Israel trip booked for the summer, but with everything going on I want a good Travel insurance that would cover if anything escalates, or if we need to evacuate and everyone cancels flights like after sukkos.
Which insurance worked the best after sukkos?