Cellcom Israel (CELJF) 20-F 2019 FY Annual report (foreign)

Exhibit 15.1

Somekh Chaikin

KPMG Millennium Tower

17 Ha’arba’a Street, PO Box 609

Tel Aviv 61006, Israel

+972 3 684 8000

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors Cellcom Israel Ltd:

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statements (No. 333-141639, No. 333-184955, No. 333-206338 and No. 333-231633) on Form S-8 of Cellcom Israel Ltd. (“the Company”) of our report dated March 18, 2019, with respect to the consolidated statements of financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2018, and the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows for the year then ended, including the related notes (collectively, the “2018 consolidated financial statements”), and of our report dated March 25, 2018, with respect to the consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, changes in equity, and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2017, including the related notes (collectively, the “2017 consolidated financial statements”), which reports appear in the December 31, 2019 annual report on Form 20-F of the Company.

Our report dated March 18, 2019, refers to a change in the manner in which the Company accounts for financial instruments.

Our report dated March 25, 2018, refers to a change in method of accounting for revenue recognition.

Somekh Chaikin

Certified Public Accountants (Israel)
Member Firm of KPMG International

Tel Aviv, Israel

March 23, 2020

Somekh Chaikin, an Israeli partnership and a member firm of the KPMG network of independent member

firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity.