The longest-serving Palestinian in an Israeli prison, considered a "doyen" by other prisoners, will be among most of the 200 Palestinians expected to be released as part of a hostage-for-prisoner swap agreed to in the Gaza ceasefire, Reuters reported.
Nael Barghouti, 67, has spent 44 years in an Israeli prison - more than any other Palestinian.
He was imprisoned in 1978 for the murder of an Israeli bus driver. He was released in 2011. in a previous exchange, but was arrested again three years later and has been in prison ever since.
Israel has said that Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis should be permanently deported if released under the Gaza ceasefire agreement and will not be allowed to return to their homes in the occupied West Bank.
Barghouti is one of 217 prisoners on an Israeli Justice Ministry list cited by the Palestinian Prisoners Association that contains the names of those to be deported abroad.
His wife, Iman Nafeh, herself a former prisoner, spent 10 years in an Israeli prison on charges of preparing a suicide attack. She said she believed Barghouti might refuse to be released if it meant being sent abroad.
According to the Palestinian Commission for Detainees and their Prisoners' Association, about 10,400 Palestinians are in Israeli prisons, a figure that does not include those held in the Gaza Strip during the last 15 months of the war.
Under the ceasefire agreement, the Palestinian Islamist movement "Hamas" must release 33 hostages during the first six-week phase of the truce, including women, children, men over 50, and sick and wounded prisoners.
Israel, for its part, must release 1,167 people held in Gaza during the war, as well as 737 other prisoners from the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza.