Australia's only Jewish female prison chaplain and her Israeli clientele

“Most Israelis who get into trouble, it’s drug-related,” said Rubin, whose sister and her family live in Haifa.

“It’s crazy, nobody is warning them that Australia has one of the strictest drug laws,” the Melbourne-born Rubin told Haaretz this week. “When they come here, often the Israelis think it’s easy ? and I think they think we’re stupid.”

“They want to stay here, so they’ll do risky things to stay. I’m trying my darnedest to warn them. It’s not worth it.”

Australia spends an estimated $2 billion a year to enforce its drug laws and had almost 30,000 people in jail in 2012, according to the Bureau of Statistics. While there is no exact data on Israelis, Rubin believes that over the last 20 years, up to 50 Israelis have been imprisoned in Australia, perhaps more, and some 500 Jews.

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