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During the week of May 3, 2009, BusinessWeek highlighted Israel’s cleantech sector and investors while Globes published an article that venture funds are looking for computing companies to invest in in Israel. Despite these promising stories, the worldwide venture industry continued to be hit by the slowdown in the first quarter. Not all of the Israel-related tech headlines were related to investments though, for these stories and others on Cyber-Ark, Tufin Technology, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and more, check below. 

Cleantech

1. Israel’s Clean Technology Pioneers

2. B-Solar, solar cell start-up, raises $3m from Genesis Partners

Investments

3. Slowdown Hit Venture Industry Worldwide In First Quarter

4. NVP, Greylock seek cloud computing cos in Israel

Information Technology

5. Tufin welcomes David Blunkett’s opinions on cybercrime awareness at Infosec

6. Sequoia-Backed Kenshoo Moves to San Francisco

7. Is Cisco abandoning Israel?

8. Cyber-Ark’s security helps keep Swine Flu under control

Miscellaneous

9. Barkat presents first master plan for Jerusalem in 50 years

10. The Digital Eve Israel 2009 Visual Blogroll

11. It pays to study computer science in Herzliya

12. Xbox 360 motion-sensor reveal rumored for E3

13. Israeli co says holds keys to stop flu’s spread