NETANYA, Israel, September 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cellcom Israel Ltd. (NYSE: CEL) (the "Company") announced today that its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") was held as planned on September 2, 2009, at which the following items were voted upon and duly approved by the Company's shareholders:

    (1) to approve the reelection of Ami Erel, Shay Livnat, Raanan
        Cohen, Avraham Bigger, Rafi Bisker, Shlomo Waxe, Haim Gavrieli and
        Ari Bronshtein as directors; and the election of Tal Raz as a
        director (effective September 21, 2009); and

    (2) to approve the reappointment of Somekh Chaikin, a member
        of KPMG International, as the Company's independent auditors;

For more information, please see the Company's Proxy Statement relating to the Meeting, which was filed on Form 6-K on July 21, 2009.

About Cellcom Israel

Cellcom Israel Ltd., established in 1994, is the leading Israeli cellular provider; Cellcom Israel provides its approximately 3.228 million subscribers (as at June 30, 2009) with a broad range of value added services including cellular and landline telephony, roaming services for tourists in Israel and for its subscribers abroad and additional services in the areas of music, video, mobile office etc., based on Cellcom Israel's technologically advanced infrastructure. The Company operates an HSPA 3.5 Generation network enabling advanced high speed broadband multimedia services, in addition to GSM/GPRS/EDGE and TDMA networks. Cellcom Israel offers Israel's broadest and largest customer service infrastructure including telephone customer service centers, retail stores, and service and sale centers, distributed nationwide. Through its broad customer service network Cellcom Israel offers its customers technical support, account information, direct to the door parcel services, internet and fax services, dedicated centers for the hearing impaired, etc. As of 2006, Cellcom Israel, through its wholly owned subsidiary Cellcom Fixed Line Communications L.P., provides landline telephone communication services in Israel, in addition to data communication services. Cellcom Israel's shares are traded both on the New York Stock Exchange (CEL) and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (CEL). For additional information please visit the Company's website http://www.cellcom.co.il

    Company Contact
    Shiri Israeli
    Investor Relations Coordinator
    investors@cellcom.co.il
    Tel: +972-52-998-9755

    Investor Relations Contact
    Ehud Helft / Ed Job
    CCGK Investor Relations
    info@gkir.com / ed.job@ccgir.com
    Tel: (US) +1-866-704-6710 / +1-646-213-1914

SOURCE Cellcom Israel Ltd.

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