Israel's ambassador to New Zealand hopes to convince Lorde to change her mind about her decision to cancel a proposed concert in Tel Aviv during a proposed "friendly meeting on Israel".

Speaking from Wellington, Itzhak Gerberg said he had sent out an invitation on Twitter to the 21-year-old Kiwi singer, but was yet to hear anything back.

Gerberg said Lorde was encouraging "animosity in the region" by "succumbing to the hateful agenda" of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Lorde cancelled her 2018 concert in Tel Aviv this week following after an open letter written by two young Kiwi women, one Jewish and one Palestinian, who asked her not to go.