Why should EL AL take a/c early that were meant for another airline and whose interior specifications were not exactly as EL AL wants and ordered them to be? Seems to me like Boeing is desperate to find a taker for these planes and is trying to get EL AL to take them without any compensation.

If I were in EL AL management, I would counter Boeing's offer and tell them that I would accept delivery of these two planes in exchange for, at minimum, a 10% reduction in price EL AL paid for it's order plus the cost of retrofitting the planes to EL AL specifications.