What newsworthy events came from Israel in May? Enough for a special May headline sum up. The biggest stories of the month, of course, were the Presidential Conference, Project Better Place’s unveiling its electric car prototype and VMware’s acquisition of B-hive Networks. Other exciting news that received less international coverage, but are also noteworthy, included the Israel Venture Association’s Annual Hi-Tech Conference and that OpTier, a business service management software provider, is currently raising funds to make an acquisition. For these stories and the rest of the major headlines from May 2008 check out the 30 Israel-related technology headlines below:

Israel at 60
Israel Presidential Conference

Yahoo’s Susan Decker: Content is king

Remarks by President Bush, President Peres of Israel and Prime Minister Olmert of Israel

Israel at 60: 10 historic quotes and 1 joke

Google co-founder lauds Israeli innovation in tech, environment

Cleantech
Project Better Place presents electric car prototype

Techwatch: Solel closes second major contract

N-trig and Its Supply Chain Go “Green” to Help Protect the Environment

Information Technology
Shunra Software Announces New Chief Technology Officer as Company Expands Application Performance and Analysis Portfolio

Voltaire and LSI to Cross-Certify InfiniBand Storage Products

Sicap and Red Bend Sign Agreement for Interoperable Device Management

Aternity Named as 2008 American Business Awards Finalist

XMPie Steps Up Web-Enabled Automation with Enhanced uStore

Information Security
Commtouch and Scalix Collaboration Brings Real Time Messaging
Security to Linux-based E-mail Servers

Zones to Resell Applicure Web Application Firewall Technology

Check Point Pushes Virtualized Browser Protection

Info Security Products Guide Names Safend Winner of the 2008 Best
Deployment Scenario Awards

Investments and M&A
Wanaka closes first fund at $50 million

Lightspeed Venture Partners Closes $800 Million Fund VIII

BTM co OpTier raising funds for acquisition

VMware to Acquire B-hive Networks to Further Enhance Virtualization Platform With Application Performance Management

Telecommunications
MobileMax in cellular-to-VoIP deal

modu in talks on handset launch

Israeli company aims to speed up the Internet

Miscellaneous
Israel Venture Association’s Annual Hi-Tech
Conference 2008 Hits the Road

Touchwall: Microsoft’s Inexpensive Wall-Based Multi-Touch Interface

High Tech Puts Israel in the Black

Israel’s Garage Geeks Gather to Hear Google’s Brin

Aniboom and I-play Partner to Create Animated Series Based on Popular
Casual Games for Distribution Across Mobile, Online and Television
Platforms

Copenda’s New Features Ease Communication
Across Social Networking and Dating Sites

(Picture of me at the 2008 Presidential Conference playing with a modu – one of the world’s smallest cell phones. Thanks Oren for taking this! Get to know Oren and modu better by checking out the modu blog.)

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