Orit Noked (; born 25 October 1952) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the

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for

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and the Labor Party and as Minister of Agriculture.

Biography

Born in

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in 1952, Noked studied law at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

. She became a legal advisor to the

Kibbutz Movement The Kibbutz Movement (, ''HaTnu'a HaKibbutzit'') is the largest settlement movement for kibbutzim in Israel. It was formed in 1999 by a partial merger of the United Kibbutz Movement and Kibbutz Artzi and is made up of approximately 230 kibbutzim. I ...

in 1986, a job she held until 1992. Between 1996 and 2002 she served as director of the movement's legal department. She has also been a member of the

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's directorate, the Agricultural Association's secretariat, the National Council for Environmental Quality and the board of the Israel Lands Authority. In the 1999 elections Noked stood as a Labour candidate within the

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list. Although she did not win a high enough spot for a Knesset seat in the party primaries, she entered the Knesset in August 2002 as a replacement for former

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. She retained her seat in the 2003 elections, and briefly served as Deputy Minister of the Vice Premier under

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between January and November 2005. In the run-up to the 2006 elections she won 17th place on Labour's list (a slot reserved for

kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

members - Noked lives in kibbutz

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). With the party winning 19 seats, she retained her seat and served as a member of the influential Finance Committee. She retained her seat in the 2009 elections after winning thirteenth place on the Labor list. Orit Noked served as Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor from April 2009 until January 2011. In January 2011 she was one of five MKs to leave the party to establish Independence, and was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. She lost her seat in 2013 when the party chose not to contest the

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. Noked is married with three children.

References

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