Bachelorette of the week Miri Lipovezky never imagined she could fall in love again after losing her partner in Gaza; now, she says, the heart can expand to hold grief and new love together“Some men saw my Instagram profile and asked why I had photos of a man who looked like my partner, so I told them he really was my partner, but that he had been killed in the war and I was ready to meet someone new. No one ever rejected me because of it or said, ‘Wow, that is such a heavy story,’ because in the end, as a country, we all experienced a national grief that everyone can relate to.”Miri Lipovezky, 28, of Tel Aviv, is this week’s bachelorette. For a year and a half, she was in a loving relationship with the late Gavriel Bloom, who was killed in the war three months after it began.GalleryMiri Lipovezky. The months of mourning were an ongoing nightmare (Photo: Courtesy)“I fell in love with him very quickly,” she says. “He made me feel important from the very first moment and always put me first. He was a combat engineering soldier, and on October 7, he volunteered to enter Gaza.”“At first, the distance and lack of contact were very hard for me. I was used to being his top priority, and suddenly there was something bigger than all of us. When I asked him whether they had told him to write a final letter, he said he did not want to bring bad thoughts on himself and that I shouldn’t worry, because he would come home and we would get married. But unfortunately, he never came back. He was killed, and I felt like the world had ended. Every day, I woke up to a nightmare that would not end.”How did you cope?