French President Francois Hollande heads to the Zionist entity on Sunday claiming to give a push to stalled peace talks with the Palestinians despite the Israeli preoccupation with negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

French President Francois Hollande heads to the Zionist entity on Sunday claiming to give a push to stalled peace talks with the Palestinians despite the Israeli preoccupation with negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.

Hollande, who is flatlining in opinion polls at home, will also use his three-day visit to try to boost trade with the Zionist entity, which stood at 2.3 billion Euros ($3 billion) in 2011.

He is accompanied by the heads of Alstom, Arianespace and Vinci as well as French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, a key participant in talks on curbing Iran's nuclear program which ended in deadlock last weekend.

On Sunday he will meet President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has described the French president as "a close friend of the Zionist entity".

Netanyahu and Peres have both urged France, which took a tougher line than its Western partners in last weekend's negotiations with Iran, to maintain its firm stance at the next round of talks which open on November 20.

"We are convinced that if Iran manufactures its bomb, all the countries of the Middle East will want to follow suit," the Israeli president told French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche.

Netanyahu will fly to Moscow on Wednesday to raise the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Hollande's office said although France's "tactical approach" on Iran was different from the Israeli more bellicose stance, both seek to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.