EX-23 2 kl00349_ex23-1.txt EXHIBIT 23.1 CONSENT OF SOMEKH CHAIKIN [KPMG LOGO] SOMEKH CHAIKIN Telephone 972 3 684 8000 KPMG Millennium Tower Fax 972 3 684 8444 17 Ha'arba'a Street, PO Box 609 Internet www.kpmg.co.il Tel Aviv 61006 Israel -------------- Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Board of Directors ECI Telecom Ltd. Petah-Tikva Israel ------ We consent to the incorporation by reference in the this Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form F-3 of ECI Telecom Ltd. of our report dated March 23, 2004, except as to Note 22A(2), which is as of December 15, 2004, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of ECI Telecom Ltd. as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2003, which report appears in the report on Form 6-K of the ECI Telecom Ltd., furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 15, 2004, and amended on January 12, 2005, and the reference to our firm under the heading "Experts" in the Prospectus. Our report, which is based on our audits and the report of other auditors, includes an explanatory paragraph that states that as discussed in Note 1A(8), ECI Telecom Ltd. restated its consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2002. /s/ Somekh Chaikin Somekh Chaikin Certified Public Accountants (Isr.) A member of KPMG International Tel Aviv, Israel March 24, 2005