Partner Communications Announces Dismissal of a Purported Class Action Filed against the Company

Partner Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner")
(Nasdaq:PTNR)(LSE:PCCD)(TASE:PTNR), a leading Israeli mobile
communications operator, announced that on March 5th 2008, following
the plaintiffs´ request, a claim that was filed with the Jerusalem
District Court in January 2007 against the Company, two other cellular
operators and two land-line operators, was dismissed with prejudice,
and a request for the certification of the claim as a class action was
dismissed without prejudice.

It had been claimed by the plaintiffs that the defendants had not
implemented number portability and were in violation of the
Communication Law. It had also been claimed that the defendants were
thus harming the plaintiffs and consumers of telephone services in
general.

For additional details see note 7(4) to our Financial Statements
included in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December
31st, 2006.

About Partner Communications

Partner Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner") is a leading
Israeli mobile communications operator providing GSM / GPRS / UMTS /
HSDPA services and wire free applications under the orange(TM) brand.
The Company provides quality service and a range of features to 2.86
million subscribers in Israel (as of December 31st, 2007). Partner´s
ADSs are quoted on the NASDAQ Global Select Market(TM) and the London
Stock Exchange. Its shares are also traded on the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange (NASDAQ and TASE: PTNR; LSE: PCCD).

Partner is a subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications
International Limited ("Hutchison Telecom"), a leading global provider
of telecommunications services. Hutchison Telecom currently offers
mobile and fixed line telecommunications services in Hong Kong, and
operates mobile telecommunications services in Israel, Macau,
Thailand, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Vietnam and Indonesia. It was the first
provider of 3G mobile services in Hong Kong and Israel and operates
brands including "Hutch", "3" and "orange". Hutchison Telecom, a
subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited, is a listed company with
American Depositary Shares quoted on the New York Stock Exchange under
the ticker "HTX" and shares listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
under the stock code "2332". For more information about Hutchison
Telecom, see www.htil.com.

For more information about Partner, see
http://www.orange.co.il/investor site/

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