"After high school, Brown moved to Israel in order to attend a yeshiva and also enlist in the army. In July 2024, Brown was nearing the end of his service in the 12th Battalion of the Golani Brigade in Shebaa Farms — Lebanese land illegally occupied by Israel — when the army base where he was stationed was struck by a Hezbollah rocket. A piece of shrapnel pierced Brown’s brain and he was eventually placed in a medical coma in an attempt to allow him to heal."