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Exhibit 1.1

Convenience translation
from Hebrew

As amended through March
31, 2005

COMPANIES ORDINANCE

COMPANY LIMITED BY
SHARES

MEMORANDUM OF
ASSOCIATION

OF

ORCKIT COMMUNICATIONS
LTD.

|1. | Name
of the Company: ORCKIT COMMUNICATIONS LTD.
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|2. | Objectives
for which the Company was established:
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| | (a) | To
deal in the development, manufacture, marketing, and rendering consultation
               services in all things related to the products in the electronics,
               communications, and satellites communications markets.
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| | (b) | To
buy, to acquire, to receive, to hold, to hire, to lease, to deliver, to lend,
               to invest, to mediate, to transfer, to pawn, to mortgage, and to enter any
deal                involving chattels, rights and properties required for the management
of the                Companys business, to achieve its objectives, and in
particular real                estate, funds, buildings, rights, credit, use of machines,
devices, raw                materials, articles, processed or unprocessed goods.
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| | (c) | To
invest and to use, as the Company should decide from time to time, the
               Companys funds, assets and profits, its capital and its estate as it
               should deem convenient and efficient in order to achieve the Companys
               objectives and its business.
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| | (d) | To
borrow and to get funds from any source whatsoever, including the issue and
               sale of promissory notes, bonds or securities, and by levying mortgages on
the                Companys assets or part thereof. To agree to transfer mortgages,
pawns,                liens, to set their conditions, to change them, to cancel them, to
redeem them,                and to invest all kinds of funds and considerations which the
Company obtains by                the above-mentioned means, in any way or manner which
the Company deems                convenient, as well as to register and receive mortgages
and liens to the                Companys credit.
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| | (e) | To
purchase all kinds of shares, companies or rights from any corporate, or to
               belong in any other manner to bodies or corporations as mentioned above,
dealing                in the same business in which this Company is entitled to deal in,
or which may                provide for the efficiency of the Companys business or
its objectives.
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| | (f) | To
divide among the Companys members the Companys assets, or part
               thereof, in any manner which the Company should deem convenient, provided
that                any division which brings about a reduction or a decrease or a
limitation in the                Companys capital shall be undertaken only in
keeping to the provisions in                the law.
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| | (g) | To
merge with any Company, or any other juridical entity, and to associate with
               all kinds of companies, partnerships and other bodies for purposes of the
               Companys business.
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| | (h) | To
purchase the assets, business and goodwill of any person, partnership,
               Company, corporation or body which deals in business having similar
objectives                as those of the Company, as well as to deal in the assets of
any such person,                partnership, corporation, company or body, and to take
upon itself its                obligations or part thereof.
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| | (i) | To
purchase shares, stock or securities of any company, corporation or
               enterprise, and to deal with them, insofar as such purchase or such
dealings can                assist in promoting the Companys business.
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| | (j) | To
purchase patents, rights on patents, trademarks and secret processes and to
               deal therein, to grant on them or part thereof rights or benefits as well
as to                sell them or part thereof, or to assign them in any other way.
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| | (k) | To
hire and get into contract with workers, employees, contractors, clerks,
               agents, and other persons for purposes of the Company business.
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| | (l) | To
perform all things which the Company is entitled to perform in accordance
               with the powers and authorities granted to the Company in accordance with
the                provisions of the Companies Ordinance, or in accordance with any other
               legislation, and to perform any act or deed which the Company deems to be
               attached or to be a part of all of the above-mentioned objectives, or any
part                thereof, and each and everyone of the above-mentioned objectives
shall be                considered an objective per se for which the Company was
established, and                independent of any other objective.
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|3. | The
members responsibility is limited.
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|4. | 
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| | (a) | The
share capital of the Company is fifty million (50,000,000) Ordinary Shares of no nominal
value.
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| | (b) | The
rights granted by the shares shall comply with the provisions stated in the
               Companys Statutes from time to time.
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| | (c) | The
Company shall be entitled to issue the original or enlarged share stock, in
               full or in part, with preferential shares as regards voting rights,
dividends,                under the conditions established from time to time by
resolution of the General                Assembly.
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| | The rights granted at any given time to every type of the Companys stock
          shares may be changed, increased or dealt with in any manner provided for in
the           Statues of the Company, as they should be in force at the time.
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| | (d) | The
Company shall be entitled to increase its capital and to issue new shares,
               whether ordinary or with preferential rights, priority rights, or other
special                rights, as per the conditions that the Company should deem
convenient.
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| | The
Company shall also be entitled to divide the registered and existing shares to different
types with bundles of rights, different rights or special rights.
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|5. | Each
shareholder resolution shall be adopted by the holders of a simple majority           of
the voting rights participating in such vote.
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The persons whose names and their
addresses are stated hereunder wish to associate as a Company as per the provisions of
this Memorandum of Association, and we agree to subscribe the number of shares of the
Company capital indicated next to our names:



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|Name                 | I.C.    | Address                 | Number of
Ord. "A" | Shares
Ord. "B" | Signature
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|1) Idith Tamir       | 6929731 | Jabotinsky 14, Givataim | 200                | 199             | (signed) 
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|2) Kalman Ruttenberg | 6929729 | Allenby 113, Haifa      | -                  | 1               | (signed) 

Date: 7/1/1990

Witness to the above signatures: (signed) Doron Levy, Attorney-at Law

Registrar of Companies
2/85



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