Career
Birbraer is Jewish. and has played for the Israel national ice hockey team He was the only Israeli national ever to be drafted by a National Hockey League team when he was drafted 67th overall in the 2000 National Hockey League Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils. Despite this, he never played in the National Hockey League, instead spending three seasons with their American Hockey League affiliate, the Albany River Rats.
In 2006, Birbraer signed with the Cardiff Devils of the Elite Ice Hockey League.
In 2008, he signed for the Heilbronn Falcons in Germany"s 2nd Bundesliga.