AS lost a good partner (CO) for travel to TLV. SEA-EWR/LAX on AS the LAX/EWR-TLV on CO. Too bad hey couldn't keep some sort of arrangement on that specific route however award seats to TLV on CO were scarce and often not available until just a week or two out. Not good for planning.

If ATL-TLV on DL isn't available have you considered SEA-EWR on AS then JFK-TLV on DL? AS8 arrives EWR ~530 PM and DL86 departs JFK ~9 PM. Plenty of time to trek from EWR-JFK (Olympic Airporter is $27+ O/W) and since it's under 4 hours it wouldn't be considered a stopover for the outbound trip.