As an Education Minister, Rubinstein lowered the bar for high school graduates to enter higher education and developed a system whereby high school students would be required to take fewer matriculation exams: the subjects for the exams would be chosen each year by lottery.
As an Education Minister, Rubinstein earned popularity because of his liberal approach, which de-facto manifested in lowering the bar for high school graduates to enter higher education. He developed a system whereby Israeli high school students would be required to take fewer matriculation exams: the subjects for the exams would be chosen each year by lottery.