They are on investors' hit lists and the green tech media is keen to monitor their progress. Key policy makers from the United States urge them on. Israeli solar technology innovators are channelling and shaping the sun's energy and breaking the world's dependence on oil. With organizations like the Cleantech Group, an international business development firm that's listing Israel in a league of its own, world rankings show that Israel is no small player in solar energy innovation - and clean technology. A recent survey released by the Guardian newspaper in the UK and the Cleantech Group chose five Israeli-based and two Israeli-developed cleantech companies among a global listing of 100.