Shlomo made aliyah at 15 from Manhattan to Jerusalem, where he studied at Chorev and Yeshivat Har Etzion before serving as an officer in the IDF Intelligence Corps. Deeply connected to the natural world, he is now a postdoctoral fellow in Ecology at Tel Aviv University. Shlomo has been volunteering with Shoval since 2020 and previously led IGY's (Israel Gay Youth) religious group in Be’er Sheva. He lives in Yaffo with his fiancé, Erez.