 Rubin began creating visual art as a critique and commentary on the militaristic aspect of Israeli society as early as the 1960s.The anti-war subject was a prime subject of Rubin's work during the 1980s – a decade witnessing the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the tensions aroused by the increasingly visible peace movement, and marked by the creation of such works as "The Anatomy of a War Widow" (1984), a series of twenty-two black-and-white pictures.The caustic "Homage to Rabbi Kahane", which portrayed the outspoken ultra-nationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane as a Jewish Nazi, was pulled off the wall by a Knesset member when hung at a Haifa gallery in 1985.