Educating students to become participatory citizens in their country is one of the explicit tasks of public education in a democratic-liberal state. In this article, I use civics education in Israel as a case study for the examination of the justification and the practicability of implementing political education in schools, as opposed to implementing its rivals –ideological education or a-political education. I argue that a liberal-democratic stance and its educational implication—political education—are two concepts submerged in ideology, and, as a result, political education in schools is not ideology-free. I also argue that the common kind of political-civic education in Israel is irrelevant for the significant minorities of Palestinian and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish citizens. Revealing the emptiness and futility of present-day political-civil education leads me to propose to separate this education into different ideological-educational streams, allowing each of them to emphasize its ideology in civil-political education.

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关于政治-公民教育的可行性问题：以以色列为例

教育学生成为他们国家的参与公民是民主自由国家公共教育的明确任务之一。在本文中，我以以色列的公民教育作为案例研究，检验在学校实施政治教育的正当性和实用性，而不是实施其竞争对手——意识形态教育或非政治教育。我认为自由民主立场及其教育含义——政治教育——是淹没在意识形态中的两个概念，因此，学校的政治教育并非没有意识形态。我还认为，以色列常见的政治公民教育与巴勒斯坦和极端正统犹太公民的重要少数群体无关。