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Exhibit 4.(a).53



The State of Israel
Ministry of Communications

General License for Partner Communications Ltd. for the Provision of
Mobile Radio Telephone (MRT) Services using the Cellular Method

# Amendment No. 40

By virtue of the powers of the
Minister of Communications under Article 4 (e) of the Communications Law
(Telecommunications and Broadcasts), 5742-1982, that have been delegated to us, by all our
other powers under any law and after having given Partner Communications Company
Ltd. (hereinafter: Partner) the opportunity to present their
arguments regarding this matter, we hereby amend the General License for the provision of
mobile radio telephone (MRT) services using the cellular method granted to Partner on 7
April 1998, as follows:

# Amendment of Article 65

| | 1. | After
Article 65.1 shall come:
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| | 65.2 | The Licensee shall enable the public emergency service centersa to indentify
the telephone number of a subscriber that dials themb, free of charge and at
any time, including a subscriber with an unlisted number, a subscriber that implemented
barring a call and a subscriber that dials from a private switchboard, effective 5 April
2007 (hereinafter-the commencement date);
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| | The
Licensee may implement the aforesaid through a licensee that routes the call to the public
emergency service center.
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| | No
later than 30 days from the commencement date, the Licensee shall notify all its
subscribers, in writing, and in a clear manner, that as of the commencement date, the
subscribers number will be identifiable by the public emergency service centers, and
shall also notify in writing all subscribers that request an unlisted
number-that the number will not be unlisted for calls made to the public emergency
service centers.
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|a              Israel
Police-100, Magen David Adom-101 and the Fire Department-102  b    
          Excluding a subscriber whose terminal equipment allows him to dial emergency
          centers only, for example a handset without a SIM card on a GSM network.
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# Amendment of the First
Annex

| | 2. | In
the comment section, under Access to Emergency Calls, at the end
                    shall come: the phone number of the caller shall be
indentifiable by the                     public emergency service centers.
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(8 January 2007)

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Mordechai Mordechai  Director-General | (sgd)
Haim Giron, Adv.Senior Deputy Director-General,Engineering and Licensing
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