Rubinovitz was born in
Łódź, Poland, 6 September 1947. In 1957 he moved to Israel, in
Aliath Gomulka, in the movement of Jews from Poland to Israel which started in 1956, after the
Polish October. He graduated from the Faculty of
Industrial engineering and Management at the Technion. From 1969 to 1973 he was a senior systems analyst at
Mamram and senior systems analyst at
Control Data (Israel). He managed the industrial software team (1973–1983) and initially worked at
Israel Aerospace Industries, installing in several countries the industrial software developed. Software called Mass was installed at Escom ( South Africa ) and used for maintenance of power plants. In 1987, at the end of his doctoral studies at
Pennsylvania State University, he served a year as a visiting professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. In 1988, he returned to Israel and joined the Industrial Engineering & Management department at Technion. He created and led the Laboratory of Robotics and CIM at the Technion. Dr Hussein Naseraldin was his
teaching assistant (currently he is a lecturer at the
ORT Braude College of Engineering). While Rubinovitz was a faculty member of The Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, he had a joint activity with his teaching assistant in the field of
active learning. This activity resulted from the vision of promoting active learning among students of production and management. From 2003 to 2004 he taught industrial engineering at the
Tel Aviv University. In 2005 he went on early retirement from the
Technion due to illness. Rubinovitz published books and articles in his field. He was a member of the curriculum committee of Science and Technology Administration in the
Ministry of Education in
Israel In March 2012 he was the guest of honor at the national conference of
Industrial Engineering and Management in
Israel - The 17th National Industrial Engineering And Management Conference. Rubinovitz married Nurit, and he is father of three (Ofer Sagi and Michal Slonim) and a grandfather of four (Yuval, Harel, Naveh and Ilai Slonim). Previously he lived in
Mishmar HaShiv'a. ==Writings==