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For Immediate Release

For Further Information Contact:
Yoram Ashery                                            Fern Lazar/David Carey
Given Imaging Ltd.                                      Lazar Partners Ltd.
                                                        Phone: (866) GIVEN IR
                                                        flazar@lazarpartners.com
                                                        dcarey@lazarparters.com

 Given Imaging Ltd. Announces Pricing of Offering of 2,505,000 Ordinary Shares

YOQNEAM, Israel, June 17 -- Given Imaging Ltd. (Nasdaq: GIVN) today announced
the pricing of a public offering of 2,505,000 ordinary shares at U.S.$32.00 per
share of which 1,500,000 are being offered by the Company and 1,005,000 are
being offered by selling shareholders. The closing of the offering is scheduled
to take place on June 23, 2004. Given Imaging expects to receive net proceeds
from the offering of approximately U.S.$44.1 million. The underwriters have been
granted an option to purchase up to 375,750 additional shares from certain
selling shareholders to cover over-allotments, if any.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Citigroup Global Markets
Inc. are acting as joint book-running managers, and CIBC World Markets Corp. and
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are acting as co-managers. Copies of the final
prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from Merrill Lynch, at 4
World Financial Center, New York, NY 10080, Tel: (212) 449-1000, or Citigroup
Global Markets Inc., at 140 58th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220, Tel: (718)
765-6732.

A registration statement relating to these securities was filed and declared
effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release shall
not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor
shall there be any sales of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction
in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to
registration or qualification under the securities law of any such state or
other jurisdiction.

Given Imaging develops, manufactures and markets diagnostic products for
disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. The company has developed a proprietary
approach to visual examination of the gastrointestinal tract through the use of
miniaturized video camera contained in a disposable capsule. The capsule is
easily ingested by the patient and moves naturally through the gastrointestinal
tract without discomfort to the patient while wirelessly transmitting high
quality color images and data to a portable recorder.

This press release contains forward-looking statements about Given Imaging with
respect to its planned public offering within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
For example, statements in the future tense, words such as "anticipates,"
"estimates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "believes," and words and terms of
similar substance used in connection with any discussion of future operating or
financial performance identify such forward-looking statements. Those
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual
results could differ materially from our current expectations as a result of
numerous factors, including but not limited to the following: market perceptions
of our planned public offering, decisions made by the selling shareholders, and
factors affecting our business, such as changes in regulatory environment, our
success in implementing our sales, marketing and manufacturing plan, protection
and validity of patents and other intellectual property rights, the impact of
currency exchange rates, the effect of competition by other companies, the
outcome of future litigation, the reimbursement policies for our product from
healthcare payors, quarterly variations in operating results, the possibility of
armed conflict or civil or military unrest in Israel and other risks disclosed
in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.