During the week of November 15, 2009, data storage and protection company, Axxana announced it had raised $9 million. Gil Schwed discussed the future of Check Point and Tufin Technologies is expanding from security into network management. For these stories and the rest of this week’s 11 headlines, check below.

Cleantech
1. Israel water tech thrives in weakened economy

2. Catching the sunshine

3. After boom and bust, global solar energy market ready to mature, analyst says

Investments and M&A
4. Motorola acquiring Israeli company

5. Axxana Raises $9 Million

6. ClickSoftware closes AiPoint asset acquisition

Information Technology
7. Check Point looks to ‘consolidation’

8. Tufin Expands from Security into Network Management

9. Trojan Hacked Secret Data of Syrian Nuclear Reactor

Miscellaneous
10. The future of Israeli high-tech: Jewish brains aren’t enough

11. Israel top patent producer in Western world