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Orit Noked

Orit Noked is an Israeli lawyer and politician who served in the Knesset from 2002 to 2013 and was Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2011 to 2013.

born 1952Minister of Agriculture, 2011 to 2013Co-founding the Independence partyLegal work for the Kibbutz Movement

Born: 25 October 1952, Jerusalem
Occupation: politician, lawyer, advocate
Party: Independence
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Orit Noked was born in 1952 in Jerusalem

Noked was born and raised in Jerusalem in 1952. Her mother is the singer Hadassah Sigalov, and her father was the musician and guitarist Herzl Sigalov. After her marriage she moved to Kibbutz Shefayim, and she is married with 3 children.

She finished high school in 1970 and studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was licensed as a lawyer in 1976.

From 1986 she was a legal advisor to the Kibbutz Movement, and from 1996 to 2002 she also headed its legal department. She sat on the boards of the Jewish National Fund and the Israel Lands Authority, among other public bodies.

She entered the Knesset for Labor in August 2002, replacing Shlomo Ben-Ami. She was Deputy Minister under Shimon Peres in 2005 and Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor from 2009 to 2011. In January 2011 she left Labor with Ehud Barak to found Independence and became Minister of Agriculture.

She left the Knesset in 2013 after Independence chose not to run. In 2014 she was appointed chair of Hamashbir Hamerkazi, and in 2017 she rejoined the Labor Party.