Walla, וואלה
Hebrew general news and lifestyle portal based in Tel Aviv. One of the oldest Hebrew web portals, founded in 1995, covering news alongside lifestyle and entertainment.
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What Is Walla?
Walla is based in Tel Aviv and has published since 1995. It is owned by Walla Communications, funded by commercial advertising.
No English edition. baba News reads it alongside 57 other Israeli newsrooms, translates each story to English, and groups it with every other outlet that covered the same event, so you can see Walla’s version next to the rest of the press.
Walla at a Glance
From the baba News source register, which records what a newsroom is rather than how good it is.
| Field | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | General portal | Hebrew general news and lifestyle portal based in Tel Aviv. |
| Where baba News places it | Center | On the left-to-right scale, and on the mainstream side of the press. |
| Languages | Hebrew | No English edition. |
| Based in | Tel Aviv | Publishing since 1995. |
| Ownership | Walla Communications | As recorded in the baba News source register. |
| Funding | Commercial advertising | How the newsroom pays for its reporting. |
How baba News Handles Walla
Every story is grouped with the other newsrooms that reported the same event. Walla arrives with its own headline rendered in English, its place on the left-to-right scale, and the filing time that shows whether it moved first or followed. Where one side of the press ran a story and another did not, the side that stayed quiet is named.
baba News does no original reporting and does not reproduce Walla’s article text. It writes a short English summary, labelled as its own, and links to the original with the publisher’s advertising and paywall intact.
The Rest of the Press
Every newsroom with a profile here, by the side of the press it sits on.
- Ynet
- N12
- Haaretz
- Israel Hayom
- Kan News
- Channel 13
- Now 14
- Maariv
- The Times of Israel
- The Jerusalem Post
- i24NEWS
- Arutz Sheva
- Kikar HaShabbat
- Behadrei Haredim
- Globes
- Calcalist
- TheMarker
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where does Walla sit in the Israeli press?
baba News places Walla on the center of the Israeli press, on the mainstream side. That is a placement for comparing coverage, not a rating of accuracy: the point is to see what each side of the press ran and what it left out.
Can I read Walla in English?
No English edition. To follow it in English alongside the rest of the Israeli press, baba News translates every story and groups it with the other newsrooms that covered the same event.
Who owns Walla?
Walla Communications. It is funded by commercial advertising. Ownership and funding are part of every newsroom profile on baba News, because who pays for a newsroom is context a reader is entitled to have.
Is Walla reliable?
baba News does not score newsrooms for reliability, and treats any single licensed "factuality" number as something a reader should not have to take on faith. What it publishes instead is checkable: who owns the outlet, how it is funded, which stories it ran, which it did not, how it worded them, and how quickly it filed compared with the rest of the press.
What else does baba News read?
58 Israeli newsrooms publishing in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, French and English, from the national broadcasters to the Haredi, religious-Zionist, Arabic and Russian-language press and official statement feeds.
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