[AFP/Yahoo] Jennie Matthew - In Israel, thousands of teenagers spend their evenings and weekends working in the ambulance corps, fire service, and police. "You see a lot of scary things," admits Yulia Tskhay, 17, fresh from a shift riding ambulances as a fully trained medic in her hometown of Tiberias, which was bombarded by Hizballah rocket attacks. "Kids in Israel learn from when they are small about security and emergency problems," says professional firefighter Oded Ziv, whose six-year-old daughter turns up at forest fires with water to help.
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