(Ha'aretz) Yossi Melman, Yuval Yoaz, and David Ratner - A German air force plane carrying kidnapped Israeli businessman Elhanan Tennenbaum and the coffins of three IDF soldiers - Benny Avraham, Omar Suwad, and Adi Avitan - landed Thursday in Germany as part of the long-awaited Israel-Hizballah prisoner swap. A plane carrying 36 Arab prisoners from Israel also landed at the airport. A total of 435 Arab prisoners - among them 400 Palestinians - are to be released under the deal. In an interview with Hizballah's Al-Manar television aired Wednesday, Tennenbaum said he went to Beirut to find information about missing navigator Ron Arad.
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