Liat Ron

Liat Ron is an economics reporter and commentator for Walla .

The country was days away from being left without cooking gas

The country was days away from being left without cooking gas

The mortgage has become in recent years one of the heaviest expenses of households in Israel

Another NIS 1,600 a month: How they inflated our mortgages

Messi and the players of the Argentina national team

Hever announced a "men only" event – and backed down within hours


Ramat Hasharon Municipality committed to fine businesses in the BIG complex that open on Shabbat

Business owners who open their doors on Saturdays face a fine of NIS 730.

Every Shabbat, about 45,000 visitors frequent the complex

Hundreds of shekels a year: The increase that will affect the pocket of every worker in Israel

After two years of freezes and cuts in the shadow of the war, an agreement was signed to update convalescence pay in the private sector to NIS 451.5 per day. How much will you gain from the move?

A new collective agreement to update the convalescence pay rate for workers in the private sector

A tsunami of bankruptcies threatens the global economy

The crisis in Iran has choked supply chains, and superpowers like the US, France, and Japan are bleeding. And what is happening here in Israel?

The sharpest increases in bankruptcy are expected to be recorded in the US and France: Trump and Macron

No shopping on Shabbat? The blow landing on the Big Fashion Glilot complex

The Director General of the Ministry of Interior sent an unprecedented letter to the municipality, attacking the non-enforcement of the law on Shabbat. Will the giant complex be closed?

Crowds at Big Fashion in Glilot during the complex's first weekend

The annoying truth behind the illusion of the low dollar

The dollar has plunged to a 30–year historical low and global commodities are cheaper, but food prices in Israel are only skyrocketing.

The shekel has strengthened against the dollar, so why aren't we feeling relief at the supermarket?

The BTL plant in Nahariya will close and 450 employees will be laid off

Following the negotiations, it was decided to keep two departments open, but for hundreds of families in the north it is too little, too late.

The BTL plant in Tefen

Daniel turned a family tragedy into a lifesaving search engine

Daniel Koren founded a search engine that locates clinical trials around the world for cancer patients, after his father passed away from the disease.

"Once every few weeks, I started receiving a request from someone for help." Daniel Koren

Smotrich flies to Washington to meet Latin American leaders, expand Isaac Accords

The minister is scheduled to return to Israel as early as Wednesday, after conducting an intensive marathon of meetings in the United States with key Latin American figures.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, May 19, 2026.

Israeli suppliers empty out inventories selling sweets, soft drinks to Gaza for Ramadan

A, a large candy manufacturer in Israel, told Walla on Monday that he had never seen such an influx of demand for his products as he is seeing now in the Gaza market. 

A Palestinian woman shops as she prepares for the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Gaza City, February 17, 2026.

Israel moves sweets, energy drinks into Gaza ahead of Ramadan 'at Trump’s request'

Israel agreed to ease restrictions on bringing sweets into Gaza "at Trump's request," a source said • Food-sector businessman: “Candy and chocolates, have we lost our minds?

A worker packs sweets outside a shop as Palestinians prepare for the upcoming holiday of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of Ramadan in 2020.