About Jazz Technologies and Jazz Semiconductor

Jazz Technologies, Inc. and Jazz Semiconductor, Inc. are wholly owned subsidiaries of Tower Semiconductor Ltd. Jazz Semiconductor, Inc., a Tower Group company is a leading wafer foundry focused on Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal (AIMS) process technologies. The company's broad process portfolio includes specialty technologies, such as RF CMOS, Analog CMOS, Silicon and SiGe BiCMOS, SiGe C-BiCMOS, Power CMOS and High Voltage CMOS. Jazz also offers world-class design enablement tools to allow complex designs to be achieved quickly and more accurately. Jazz executive offices and its U.S. wafer fabrication facility are located in Newport Beach, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.jazztechnologies.com and http://www.jazzsemi.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements based on management’s current expectations and beliefs which are subject to risks and uncertainties. For example, forward-looking statements include statements regarding synergies, customer benefits, growth opportunities, financial improvements, costs savings and other benefits anticipated from the merger and the expected closing of Tower’s restructuring transaction with its banks. Actual results may vary from those projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the possibility that these expected synergies, customer benefits, growth opportunities, financial improvements, costs savings and other benefits will not be achieved or that the companies are unable to successfully execute their integration strategies, that after the closing of the merger, the businesses of the companies may suffer due to uncertainty, as well as other risks. A complete discussion of risks and uncertainties that may affect the accuracy of forward-looking statements included in this press release or which may otherwise affect our business is included under the heading "Risk Factors" in Tower’s most recent filings on Forms 20-F, F-3, F-4 and 6-K, as were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and the Israel Securities Authority, and Jazz’s most recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, as were filed with the SEC. Tower and Jazz do not intend to update, and expressly disclaim any obligation to update, the information contained in this release.

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