The official, Tomás Zerón de Lucio, is the former chief of Mexico's Criminal Investigation Agency, and he is reportedly accused of abduction, torture and the tampering of evidence in the investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students.
Zerón has denied these allegations and has applied for asylum in Israel, while Mexico has requested that he be extradited, according to the report.
An anonymous senior Israeli official said this is being used as "tit-for-tat diplomacy" against Mexico.
The abduction shocked the country, and then-president Enrique Peña Nieto pressured Zerón to solve it quickly.
The conclusion of Zerón's investigation was that the officers were working with a criminal group who killed the students and disposed of their ashes in a river.
However, a panel of international investigators discovered that Zerón used torture to obtain key testimony and mishandled evidence and crucial leads. In particular, he ignored the presence of the military and federal officers at the kidnapping, and instead treated the case as a local issue.
When currently President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018, he reopened the case, and fragments of the remains of two of the students were found. Following this discovery, a number of government officials were arrested, including Zerón.
Zerón reportedly escaped to Canada and from there to Israel. When his tourist visa expired, he applied for asylum, and his application is still under consideration.