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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 #2160 on: December 02, 2024, 04:16:04 AM »
Seeing headlines that LH cancelled through Jan 31th

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2161 on: December 02, 2024, 04:35:19 AM »

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2162 on: December 02, 2024, 05:09:30 PM »
why cant i find any stopover flights with the leg from and to TLV on elal?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2163 on: December 02, 2024, 05:11:50 PM »
why cant i find any stopover flights with the leg from and to TLV on elal?

Which dates are you looking at? might be sold out.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2164 on: December 02, 2024, 05:18:06 PM »
march 27-apr27
TLV-NYC

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2165 on: December 02, 2024, 05:21:25 PM »
march 27-apr27
TLV-NYC

Plenty available. I have @$1455 roundtrip.
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2166 on: December 03, 2024, 08:26:56 AM »
Seeing headlines that LH cancelled through Jan 31th
Is this for LX OS as well?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2167 on: December 03, 2024, 09:03:58 AM »

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2168 on: December 04, 2024, 03:18:25 AM »
If anyone wants to self-connect to a direct Norse flight FCO - JFK - FCO, there are good prices that work for Pesach. (Didn't check, but it says 315 euro.)
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2169 on: December 09, 2024, 09:06:00 AM »
Is Aegean on track to resume tomorrow? Would it be safe to book something for next week?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2170 on: December 09, 2024, 11:24:29 AM »
LOT airlines selling tickets in Jan to TLV...are they officially flying or just trying to get a free loan?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2171 on: December 09, 2024, 12:51:57 PM »
Is Aegean on track to resume tomorrow?
It shows up already on the ATH website departure board and has already an aircraft assigned.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/sx-dga

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2172 on: December 09, 2024, 05:27:56 PM »
Is British Airways still a safe bet that future cancellations will be rebooked on El Al? (Pending availability obviously.)

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2173 on: December 10, 2024, 01:23:41 PM »
It shows up already on the ATH website departure board and has already an aircraft assigned.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/sx-dga
Seems like Aegean is back!
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2174 on: December 10, 2024, 01:36:53 PM »
Seems like Aegean is back!
No one really doubted they would be back
The real deep question so how long we can rely on them to stick around....
Only book close in or even far out

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2175 on: December 10, 2024, 02:30:39 PM »
Seems like Aegean is back!
Lets hope others will follow soon!

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« Reply #2176 on: December 10, 2024, 04:05:14 PM »
No one really doubted they would be back
The real deep question so how long we can rely on them to stick around....
Only book close in or even far out
I booked them for Pesach in August (TLV-ATH, ATH-EWR with Emirates).
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2177 on: December 10, 2024, 04:17:26 PM »
General question and I know I need to dive in and learn this. I'm looking to go to Israel in like a year and want to start planning the kind of points I'll need. What are some of the cheapest/best/common ways the oilem here books ewr (preferred) or jfk to tlv, with amex / chase transfers partners?
Business would be great if I can afford it especially since I assume I have to stop over.
Any general hot currency / amounts / routes people are taking they can share?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2178 on: December 10, 2024, 04:32:48 PM »
General question and I know I need to dive in and learn this. I'm looking to go to Israel in like a year and want to start planning the kind of points I'll need. What are some of the cheapest/best/common ways the oilem here books ewr (preferred) or jfk to tlv, with amex / chase transfers partners?
Business would be great if I can afford it especially since I assume I have to stop over.
Any general hot currency / amounts / routes people are taking they can share?
El Al direct EWR-TLV in economy rt is 60k +$62 Delta Skymiles. Obviously there is no last minute availability but if your searching far out you should find. I have booked 5 separate itineraries at this rate in the past couple of months.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #2179 on: December 10, 2024, 11:39:46 PM »
El Al direct EWR-TLV in economy rt is 60k +$62 Delta Skymiles. Obviously there is no last minute availability but if your searching far out you should find. I have booked 5 separate itineraries at this rate in the past couple of months.
And nothing wrong with delta/ly connection just a bit more tax, easier to find availability.