When I was in High School Israel was offering a $100 a month to foreigners that would man their less hot outposts, the job was open to tourists and such, I regret that my plan to get there never worked out, my partner that I talked into going with me died in a motorcycle accident, and the youthful dream faded away because of all the realities of having an idea here, and putting it into action, across the world.
Still, it was a pretty quirky offer, and probably one long forgotten by the historians.
My son was an exchange student in Israel. He joined the Youth Army and trained right with the regular troops. He and 5 others were sent to the border to mend fences. They stayed right in the Army camp with the troops.
The day after the 6 of them went back to school, that area was attacked. The leader at that station was called “pops.”
He was all of 24 years old.
Everyone they knew stationed there was killed. He said that the area was so peaceful a serene, that he found it so hard to believe that such evil could happen there.
It affected him so profoundly that he joined the US army and trained as a medic. CIA and NSA tried to get him to join the ranks as a spook. He turned them down.