(JNS) - After the shivah mourning period, everyone goes home. Friends return to work. The steady stream of visitors slows, the meals stop arriving, and the house gradually grows quiet again. For hundreds of Israeli women widowed since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, and the war that followed, that is when the hardest part begins. That is also when an 18-year-old girl rings the doorbell.