NETANYA, Israel, April 8, 2010 /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 April 7, 2010, at which the following items were voted upon and duly approved by the Company's shareholders:

    (1) to re-elect Ami Erel, Shay Livnat, Raanan Cohen, Avraham
        Bigger, Rafi Bisker, Shlomo Waxe, Haim Gavrieli, Ari Bronshtein and
        Tal Raz as directors;

    (2) to re-elect Ronit Baytel and Joseph Barnea as external
        directors; and

    (3) to reappoint Somekh Chaikin as the Company's independent
        auditor;

For more information, please see the Company's Proxy Statement relating to the Meeting, which was filed on Form 6-K on February 25, 2010.

About Cellcom Israel

Cellcom Israel Ltd., established in 1994, is the leading Israeli cellular provider; Cellcom Israel provides its approximately 3.292 million subscribers (as at December 31, 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                Investor Relations Contact
    Yaacov Heen                    Porat Saar & Kristin Knies

    Chief Financial Officer        CCG Investor Relations Israel & US
    investors@cellcom.co.il        cellcom@ccgisrael.com
    Tel: +972-52-998-9755          Tel: +1-646-233-2161

SOURCE Cellcom Israel Ltd.