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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 #320 on: October 13, 2023, 05:31:45 AM »
LH to FRA inbound as LH342 (744) and LH344 (321)
Outbound as LH 343 and 345
To MUC  inbound LH346(321) and LH348(350)
Outbound LH347 and LH349
Anyone have any idea about these?
Were they for sale?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #321 on: October 13, 2023, 06:12:41 AM »
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/emergencyflight

Charter flight to London from Eilat Airport for Sunday 4 pm going on sale soon

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #322 on: October 13, 2023, 07:38:48 AM »
TUS AIRWAYS TO SUSPEND TEL AVIV SERVICES FROM SATURDAY 14th OCTOBER

This includes all Tel Aviv flights to/from Larnaca, Athens, Paphos and Heraklion.


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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #323 on: October 13, 2023, 07:46:56 AM »
BH. We got home safely.
TLV-SOF-VIE-EWR. 36 hours of travel.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #324 on: October 13, 2023, 07:47:58 AM »
Yesterday UK government send an email 3 pm that they have a rescue flight at 8:45 pm, after packing up, running to airport and waiting 3 hours they cancelled the flight

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #325 on: October 13, 2023, 09:09:52 AM »
I have tickets to TLV in 6 weeks from now, booked half a year ago.
Any hope that I’d be able to go (Without putting myself in danger)?

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #326 on: October 13, 2023, 09:15:21 AM »
I have tickets to TLV in 6 weeks from now, booked half a year ago.
Any hope that I’d be able to go (Without putting myself in danger)?
I don't think anyone can know that now

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #327 on: October 13, 2023, 09:55:38 AM »
@TBD Did you get on the plane?

Likely means spending Shabbos in Europe
I am I the only one wondering this:
How is it that illegal aliens are asked by the US government, after illegally cross the US southern border, to which city they would like to go to. They can choose to go anywhere in the country and they government pays for their flight ticket. In some instances, the government even charters flights. Additionally the illegals also receive cash assistance. Concurrently, Legal American Citizens that are stuck in Israel are required to pay for their evacuation flight to a foreign land not of their choosing and also don't receive cash assistances.

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #330 on: October 13, 2023, 02:07:00 PM »
virgin atlantic extends cancellation....
Link?
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #331 on: October 13, 2023, 02:32:56 PM »
Link?

direct email and my flight on 15th now shows cancelled

i think till 19th they wrote

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #332 on: October 13, 2023, 02:33:32 PM »
direct email and my flight on 15th now shows cancelled

i think till 19th they wrote
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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #333 on: October 13, 2023, 02:34:19 PM »
tus airways also cancelled flights from the 14th

also direct email..

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #334 on: October 13, 2023, 02:35:48 PM »
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from the website

f you are in Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including Gaza, FCDO strongly encourages you to register your presence. This will ensure you receive important updates, including information to support you to leave the country. Fill in the form for every member of your family or group who is a British national.

Due to the ongoing situation in Israel, our flights to and from Tel Aviv may face delays or cancellations. Based on the latest information, we have taken the decision to pause flying to and from Tel Aviv until Friday 20th October.

The safety and security of our customers and our people are our number one priority and our flying programme to Israel remains under constant review. We would advise anyone booked to travel to check their flight status on the website before travelling to the airport.

If you were booked to travel on a cancelled service between the 17th and 28th October, your flight will still show as operating until the changes have been made in our system this Saturday.

Please note we will resume operating our second service from the 20th October:

VS457 departing at 08:50 local from London Heathrow-Tel Aviv

VS458 departing 16:25 local from Tel Aviv-London Heathrow

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #335 on: October 13, 2023, 02:52:44 PM »
https://twitter.com/safier/status/1712874525174509804
It seems that UA was most reluctant to cancel flights unlike other US carriers
they are also olnly ones offering athens fligthts
seems that they are really scared to lose their huge market share
however it was major disservice i waited a few days bec they told me flight on tuesday would depart
and i missed out on VS flight

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Re: Simchas Torah War - Flights Discussion Thread
« Reply #337 on: October 13, 2023, 03:21:30 PM »
https://twitter.com/safier/status/1712874525174509804
Is still beats the other airlines who don’t offer you any options.
People on AA, DL or European carriers are stuck waiting for LY to open up, and have to pay hundreds of dollars.
UA pax can get a $200-300 flight from DXB or ATH.
This also taught me a lesson about why the booking partner matters when making JV bookings. I have several relatives who came to the US for my sister’s wedding, all scheduled to fly on LH, LX, and OS. Some booked directly with the operating airline, and others booked on UA codeshare. The UA bookings are much better off now, even though they were all technically on the same flights.

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