JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel has received a report from the Lebanese militia Hezbollah on an Israeli airman missing for more than two decades, potentially clearing the way for a prisoner swap between the two foes, officials said Saturday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received the report on Ron Arad on Saturday and plans to bring it up for a discussion in his Cabinet on Tuesday, Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said.

Hezbollah said in the report that it does not know what happened to Arad, who has been missing since he was captured alive when his fighter jet went down over Lebanon in 1986, according to Israeli officials who spoke on condition of anonymity since no official announcement was released.

Under the Israel-Hezbollah deal, Israel will hand over Samir Kantar, a Lebanese man serving multiple life terms for a 1979 attack in Israel’s north.

In return, Israel was to get two soldiers captured by Hezbollah in a 2006 cross-border raid.

Israeli military officials say the exchange is likely to take place this week, pending final approval by the Cabinet.

Arad’s daughter, Yuval, urged authorities not to declare her father dead nor to give up the search for him.

Arad was forced to parachute out of his fighter jet after one of its bombs apparently malfunctioned. The jet’s pilot was rescued by Israeli forces, but Arad was captured by guerrillas from the Shiite Amal organization.