I would agree with this statement, solely because AA runs the 3x weekly JFK flight with one of the departures on Friday Evening, which clearly shows it’s not about catering to the religious crowd, and as someone who much prefers to fly over weekends/shabbat to avoid certain chaos and lines at TLV, business and high profile travelers will still be the money makers on the route. Same for the planned DFW route, which from a strictly Jewish lens, doesn’t make much sense compared to ORD or LAX. I’m also pretty sure some of those LY flights are codeshares with AA, so you can get the LAX/ORD/SFO flights tagged.

on the subject, I don’t see LAX growing as an international city to TLV for AA, they’ve pretty much cleared most of their longhauls to partners and only fly to certain Asian cities from LAX now, while moving some traffic to SEA and a lot to DFW. If anything I would assume PHL would be a contender, depending on what they plan to do in SEA (see LHR and BLR) they could add a route as it takes advantage of the northern routing (I doubt this will happen until SEA shows it can feed from the west coast) or adding a route from ORD, for similar reasons of hub, demand from all sources and the already northern location that make it more efficient.