The Real Housewives star has close family ties to Israel.
Umansky also wore an Israeli flag pin on his lapel throughout the night.
“I have a lot of family there,” he tells EW.
Mauricio Umansky and Emma Slater on ‘Dancing With the Stars’.Disney/Eric McCandless
“I had one of the best experiences of my life in Israel.
TheBuying Beverly Hillsstar also reveals that an individual close to his family died in the recent violence.
“It’s hard,” he says.
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