ABSTRACT
In recent years, two competing ideological discourses have gained force in the Israeli educational system: education for coexistence and education for military service and militarism. Each of the discourses presents itself as crucial for the existence and stability of the society and the state, particularly in view of the ethnic, national, political, and religious rifts that characterize it (Horowitz & Lisak, 1990),and the continuing military conflict it has been involved in (Kimmerling, 1993). These competing discourses have generated a cacophonous educational reality as well as a privatization of ideology and values, both in the informal educational system (Keller, 1998) and in schools (Shteiner, 2002).
