Makor Rishon to Buy Maariv?

Globes is reporting that Shlomo Ben-Zvi, one of the owners of the religious Israeli newspaper, Makor Rishon, is in advanced talks with Maariv owner Nochi Dankner to buy the Maariv newspaper.

The report said that Ben-Zvi doesn't plan to buy the debt of the paper, just the assets, including the Maariv brand name and control.

The deal is estimated in the tens of millions of shekels.