The most shocking headline from the week of March 8, 2009 was that Delver, the social search engine that was placed on deadpool watch about a month ago was bought by Sears Holding Co. Such purchases could become more common this year as it was also reported during the week that it is expected that Israeli VC funds will face a steep drop in 2009. For these stories and the rest of the 12 Israel-related headlines from the week of March 8, 2009, check below.

Cleantech

1. Israeli company turns traffic into energy source

2. Israeli cleantech cos seek piece of $6b US stimulus pie

3. How to Make Electricity From Wasted Energy

Investments and Partnerships

4. Sears Holdings Corp. acquires Delver.com, an Israel-based social search engine company

5. Content delivery network Cotendo raises $7 million for “next-gen” services

6. Israeli VC funds to face steep drop in ’09

7. C-nario, Vizrt announce strategic digital signage partnership

Information Technology

8. Innovations: What’s in a box?

9. SaaS sneaks by project management’s big barrier

10. ‘Security market is dynamic, any time‘

11. How IBM’s sprucing up its ‘social’ side

Miscellaneous

12. Israel is disproportionately important to Google