{{Short description|Israeli politician (born 1952)}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Oritnoked.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|10|25|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]] | death_date = | death_place = | office1 = Ministerial roles | suboffice1 = [[Agriculture Minister of Israel|Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development]] | subterm1 = 2011–2013 | office2 = Faction represented in the [[Knesset]] | suboffice2 = [[Israeli Labor Party|Labor Party]] | subterm2 = 2002–2011 | suboffice3 = [[Independence (Israeli political party)|Independence]] | subterm3 = 2011–2013 | native_name = אורית נוקד | native_name_lang = he }}
'''Orit Noked''' ({{langx|he|אורית נוקד}}; born 25 October 1952) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the [[Knesset]] for [[Independence (Israeli political party)|Independence]] and the [[Israeli Labor Party|Labor Party]] and as [[Agriculture Minister of Israel|Minister of Agriculture]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/themarker/still-no-deal-in-sight-to-lower-dairy-prices-in-israel-1.374584|title=Still no deal in sight to lower dairy prices in Israel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper|last=Coren|first=Ora|author2=Moti Bassok |author3=Zvi Zrahiya |author4=Adi Dovrat-Meseritz |date=22 July 2011|work=Ha'aretz|access-date=15 August 2011}}</ref>
==Biography== Born in [[Jerusalem]] in 1952, Noked studied law at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.6611547/k.29CB/Orit_Noked.htm |title=Orit Noked |publisher=The Israel Project |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911183759/http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.6611547/k.29CB/Orit_Noked.htm |archive-date=2012-09-11 }}</ref> She became a legal advisor to the [[Kibbutz Movement]] 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 [[Jewish National Fund]]'s directorate, the Agricultural Association's secretariat, the National Council for Environmental Quality and the board of the [[Israel Lands Authority]].
In the [[1999 Israeli legislative election|1999 elections]] Noked stood as a Labour candidate within the [[One Israel]] 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 [[Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel|Foreign Minister]] [[Shlomo Ben-Ami]]. She retained her seat in the [[2003 Israeli legislative election|2003 elections]], and briefly served as Deputy Minister of the [[Deputy leaders of Israel#Vice Prime Minister|Vice Premier]]<ref>{{MKlink|id=717}}</ref> under [[Shimon Peres]] between January and November 2005. In the run-up to the [[2006 Israeli legislative election|2006 elections]] she won 17th place on Labour's list (a slot reserved for [[kibbutz]] members - Noked lives in kibbutz [[Shefayim]]). 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 Israeli legislative election|2009 elections]] after winning thirteenth place on the Labor list. Orit Noked served as [[Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor|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 [[Agriculture Minister of Israel|Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development]]. She lost her seat in 2013 when the party chose not to contest the [[2013 Israeli legislative election|elections]].
Noked is married with three children.
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