1. TLV

2. Y

3. That's a very good question. It's very hard to know. In the beginning of the year I was expecting to fly only few thousand miles - just a trip to Europe. But eventually I flew two times to Europe and two times to N. America. Not enough for gold in most companies (Aegean wouldn't give me full miles for most tickets), but still quite a lot

4. Nope. Used to have Aeroplan silver 2 year ago.

5. Status would be nice, but I realize that it's quite impossible to obtain it with the amount of miles that I do. Therefore, award tickets will be nice.

6. Don't have those.

7. I don't care. I try to avoid Lufthansa, because their Y cabin sucks, and I hate FRA, but that's it.

8. Mostly pleasure. If it's business, than I'm from academia, so I can't really go in business, but occasionally I can choose the booking class in the economy.

My short list is Ethiopian, Singapore, Thai, Turkish, Aegean and Asiana. These were chosen on the basis that they (except Aegean) give 100% miles to most booking classes. Of all those Asiana looks like the best chance to get a status, but it seems from their site that I can't really do anything with their award miles from Israel. I am thinking Turkish, but I'll be happy to hear your opinion.