The Israeli government has offered a financial reward of $10 million to anyone who can provide significant information about missing Israeli airman Ron Arad.
The reward announcement, which was published on December 1, was signed off last week by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the team of officials who deal with locating prisoners and soldiers missing in action, private Channel 2 television reported.
Air force navigator Arad has been missing since his aircraft was shot down over Lebanon in 1986.
Details of the reward, which will be presented in exchange for "significant information" which is both "documented and final," will be published across the globe, Channel 2 said.
News of the reward effectively ruled out a second stage of prisoner exchange negotiations between Israel and the Lebanese Hizbullah militia, the channel said.
In January Israel released 400 Palestinians, some 30 other Arabs, and one German in a German-brokered exchange which saw Hizbullah freeing an Israeli businessman and turning over the bodies of three other soldiers.
Israel offers $10mn for information on MIA
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