“I hope that your job is eliminated.” 

Ordinarily, that’s not something you expect to hear when meeting someone for the first time. I hear it a few times a week. 

I don’t take it personally. As the Executive Director of IDF Widows and Orphans USA, I understand exactly what people mean. Like them, I long for an Israel in which no man or woman receives that knock on the door, and no child grows up without a parent. 

I too wish we could shutter our Otzma (“strength”) camps, where hundreds of children gather with the only people who truly understand their loss. I wish there were no need for our midwife program supporting women who were pregnant when their husbands were killed, ensuring they do not face birth and early........

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