Tomer will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, February 2 at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue. He is the son of Boris and Elena Shlafer of Woodinville and the brother of Atalia. His grandparents are Ludmila Shlafer of Bellevue, Svetlana Seluyanov of St. Petersburg, Russia, the late Wolf Shlafer and the late Michael Seluyanov. Tomer is a 7th-grader at Kirkland Middle School and enjoys traveling, watching movies, and his friends. His mitzvah project is to plant a tree in Israel.