When Henry Manoucheri woke up the morning of Oct. 7 in his house in Jerusalem, he didn’t check his phone because it was a Saturday — and observant Jews don’t use electricity during the Sabbath.
“All of a sudden I heard sirens. I went to our porch and I looked up outside, and all of a sudden I heard explosions, right over our heads,” said Manoucheri, the CEO of Los Angeles-based multifamily investor Universe Holdings.
Manoucheri said he remembers the Yom Kippur War from when he was a 10-year-old growing up in Iran, but this felt even more intense. As he walked…