Tower Semiconductor Ltd. — Regulatory Filings 2009

Aug 27, 2009

TOWER

SEMICONDUCTOR LTD.

Tower Semiconductor Regains Compliance with $1.00 Nasdaq Minimum Closing Bid Price

Completed the requirement on August 25, 2009, and received a letter from Nasdaq confirming it regained compliance

MIGDAL HA'EMEK, Israel, August 27, 2009 — Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. (Nasdaq: TSEM, TASE: TSEM), a leading global specialty foundry, today announced that it has received a letter dated August 26, 2009 from the Listing Qualifications Department of the NASDAQ Stock Market (Nasdaq), according to which Nasdaq confirmed that the Company has regained compliance with the $1.00 minimum closing bid price requirement for continued listing on The NASDAQ Global Market under Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) (formerly Marketplace Rule 4450(a)(5)). Pursuant to Nasdaq's rules, the Company was required to evidence a closing bid price of at least $1.00 per share for 10 consecutive trading days. Tower completed the requirement on August 25, 2009, and the Company believes it currently meets all requirements for continued listing on the Nasdaq Global Market.

The Company's ordinary shares continue to be listed on The NASDAQ Global Market and its ticker symbol of TSEM remains unchanged.

About Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. and Jazz Semiconductor, Inc.

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM, TASE: TSEM) is a global specialty foundry leader and its fully owned subsidiary Jazz Semiconductor, a Tower Group Company is a leader in Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal (AIMS) foundry solutions. Tower and Jazz manufacture integrated circuits with geometries ranging from 1.0 to 0.13-micron and provide industry leading design enablement tools to allow complex designs to be achieved quickly and more accurately. Tower and Jazz offer a broad range of process technologies including Digital, Mixed-Signal and RFCMOS, HV CMOS, Power Management, Non-Volatile Memory (NVM), Embedded NVM, MEMS, and CMOS Image Sensors. To provide world-class customer service, Tower maintains two manufacturing facilities in Israel; Jazz maintains a fab in the U.S. and additional manufacturing capacity is available in China through partnerships with ASMC and HHNEC. For more information, please visit www.towersemi.com and www.jazzsemi.com.

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Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary from those projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. 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 Tower's and Jazz's 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.

Contact:

Tower Semiconductor

Noit Levi, +972 4 604 7066

noitle@towersemi.com

or:

GK Investor Relations

Kenny Green, (646) 201 9246

info@gkir.com