Walla
Walla is one of Israel's most-visited web portals, founded in 1995, with a Hebrew-language news operation covering politics, security, business, and culture. Long controlled by telecom group Bezeq, it featured centrally in the Case 4000 proceedings over allegedly favorable coverage, and has been owned by publisher Eli Azur's group since 2021. Its daily news coverage is broadly mainstream.
Walla at a glance
- Country
- Israel
- Kind of outlet
- News portal
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- walla.co.il ↗
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How Crosswire groups Walla
Crosswire groups Walla as Centrist for comparisons within Israel's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Israel, Haaretz is listed as Left-leaning, while The Jerusalem Post and Arutz Sheva are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Walla beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Walla sits in Israel's press
Walla is one of 6 outlets tracked in Israel, and one of 2 news portals among them — the other being Ynetnews. By outlets tracked, Israel ranks second of the 20 countries on Crosswire's Middle East and North Africa hub, which lists 99 outlets in all.
Across the Middle East and North Africa, Crosswire tracks 8 of the 80 news portals in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Walla outside Israel, starting with The Levant, are BasNews (Iraq), Naharnet (Lebanon), Hespress (Morocco) and Tunisie Numerique (Tunisia). Opening one of them beside Walla is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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