Walla! Communications Ltd

Walla! Communications Ltd.
Walla! portal's main page screenshot as on October 2016
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
web portal
Available inHebrew
Founded1995; 29 years ago (1995)
HeadquartersTel Aviv, Israel
OwnerThe Jerusalem Post (100%)
Key peopleAvraham Gabai (chairman)
Gadi Hadar (founder)
Erez Pilosof (founder)
Gadi Hadar (founder)
Ido Eshed (CEO)
Net incomeIncrease132 Million (FY 2009)
URLwww.walla.co.il
Registrationoptional
Users2.5 million active users
Current statusactive

Walla! Communications Ltd. (Hebrew: וואלה! תקשורת בע"מ) is an Israeli internet company headquartered in Tel Aviv and is fully owned by The Jerusalem Post. Until 2020, it was fully owned by Bezeq. Walla!'s web portal provides news, search (powered by Google Search) and e-mail, among other things. As of January 2022, Alexa rankings put it in the top 9 sites by traffic originating in Israel.[1] Its online news outlet Walla! News is one of the major Israeli news websites.[citation needed]

The outlet has been accused of biased media reporting in favour of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[2] Employees of the company have been summoned as witnesses in Case 4000, one of the corruption trials involving Netanyahu.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "walla.co.il". Alexa. 2013. Archived from the original on 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
  2. ^ Gross, Judah. "Walla editor says he was constantly pushed to change coverage of Netanyahu and rivals". Times of Israel. Retrieved 5 April 2021.