Liat Ron

Liat Ron is an economics reporter and commentator for Walla .

Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf

Goldknopf proposes lowering the VAT to 17%

Nochi Dankner during an interview with Walla!NEWS24 in February 2020

Insolvency order against Nochi Dankner

Population & Immigration Authority CEO Boaz Yosef

The dramatic plan: Another 100,000 foreign workers by 2027


The country was days away from being left without cooking gas

The State Comptroller's report reveals that in the second half of 2025, the stock of cooking gas was about to run out due to damage to ORL (Bazan) and infrastructure delays.

The country was days away from being left without cooking gas

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

A harsh State Comptroller report presents a continuous failure: The abolition of the Prime limit without a risk assessment cost borrowers a surge of thousands of shekels in their monthly repayment.

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

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

The consumer club for career military personnel planned to produce a giant viewing event for men only, and sparked a storm.

Messi and the players of the Argentina national team

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