Rafi Broer is a Canadian from Toronto that served in the Israeli army for 27 months in a combat engineering unit, and was discharged in February 2014. He then went on to work at a bar in Tel Aviv, according to his mother.

One of Rafi’s siblings, Orli Broer, was also in the Israeli army and is included in this database. Broer’s mother, Audrey Shecter, is a partner and family lawyer at a Toronto law firm. Shecter has spoken to multiple media outlets about her children’s service in the Israeli army. She told the National Post, “It’s been very odd to be the Canadian mother of Israeli soldiers,” with the paper noting that she and her husband are not Israeli citizens. The article in question featured a photo of Shecter and Broer hugging in front of a tank with the latter in his military uniform.