Udi Levy stepped down in 2016 as head of Mossad’s economic warfare unit, after a 35-year-long career in Israeli intelligence. He spent decades researching the money flows that allow the survival of terrorist groups and regimes with animosity toward Israel — chiefly Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.

In an interview with The Times of Israel, he said the country should harness the coalition that came together to repel the recent direct attack on Israel by Tehran in order to halt the global money flows that constitute the lifeline of the Islamic Republic and that allow it to bypass US and international sanctions.

On the night between April 13-14, Iran launched hundreds of ballistic and cruise missiles alongside hundreds of drones at Israel in an unprecedented attack from its territory, in response to an alleged Israeli strike in Syria that killed Revolutionary Guard generals.