Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again postponed a meeting with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen over nominating candidates for several diplomatic positions, although many have remained vacant for a long time.

According to the Israeli news site Ynet, Netanyahu postponed the meeting to discuss the appointment of new ambassadors and consuls in several countries, including important positions such as an ambassador to France, Ethiopia, and a consul in New York, as negotiations with the opposition over a compromise on the judicial overhaul rumble on. 

The French embassy has been without an ambassador for four months after the resignation of Yael German over the current government's decision to advance its judicial overhaul, and the government have struggled to find an appropriate replacement. 

The report suggested that French-Jewish member of parliament, Meyer Habib, who is a close ally of Netanyahu, has been moving behind the scenes to appoint an Israeli ambassador to Paris. 

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abib has previously accused the embassy of fomenting opposition to the planned neutering of the judiciary within the French Jewish community, as well as working against setting up working meetings with the far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich when he visited Paris.