Elian (Eli) Rubineau is a Canadian who has lived in Montreal. He was featured in a December 2024 event at the Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom synagogue in Montreal, which advertised it as such: “Eli Rubineau came to Montreal with his family from Ithaca in 2014 and became actively involved at Temple. He made Aliyah in 2020, moving to Kibbutz Urim in the Negev desert, and joining the IDF’s elite counter-terror unit as a combat medic. On October 7 he and his unit were among the first to respond to the horrors at Kfar Aza, Be’eri and Nir Yitzhak. Today, Eli is in the final months of his service. He is joining us to share his experiences, as a Temple kid, as an Israeli, as a soldier, and as a Zionist.”

Rubineau’s Facebook profile states that he attended high school in Montreal, and also participated in multiple Jewish summer camps and student organizations. He then completed a few months of school at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before volunteering for the Magen David Adom ambulance and ultimately joining the military.