Walla! (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walla! (Hebrew: ! ) is an Israeli web portal, providing news, search and e-mail, among other things. One of the first Israeli internet portals, Walla! is considered as one of the most popular web sites in the country. As of December 2009[update], Alexa rankings put it in the top 5 sites by traffic originating in Israel. It was founded by Erez Pilosof and Gadi Hadar in 1995 to serve as a guide to internet sites. By 1998, the company had gone public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and in 2001 it merged with IOL, a similar site run by the Ha'aretz Group.