The Foreign Ministry is pressing to purchase a $12.5 million home to serve as the official residence of the ambassador in Washington DC, the Haaretz daily reports.
The report says the ministry is seeking additional funding and looking to move ahead with the purchase as soon as this week.
The report said the property was a seven-bedroom home with a swimming pool.
The current ambassador, Mike Herzog, lives in a rented apartment at a cost of $25,000 per month, the report says.
The state owns a property in Washington that housed previous ambassadors, but it fell into disrepair after it stopped being used when former ambassador Ron Dermer took up his post.
Dermer, who is Orthodox, moved into a rented home that was closer to an Orthodox synagogue and school.
Plans to build a new home on the property ran into bureaucratic hurdles, Haaretz said.
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