Orit Strook | |
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Ministerial roles | |
2022– | Minister of Settlements and National Missions |
Faction represented in the Knesset | |
2013–2015 | Jewish Home |
2021– | Mafdal–Religious Zionism |
Personal details | |
Born | Orit Malka Cohen 15 March 1960 Jerusalem |
Spouse | Avraham Strook |
Children | 11 |
Orit Malka Strook (Hebrew: אוֹרִית מַלְכָּה סְטְרוֹק, born 15 March 1960) is a far-right Israeli politician. She serves as the Minister of Settlements and National Missions in the thirty-seventh government,[1] and is a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism, and served as member of the Knesset for Tkuma (a faction within the Jewish Home) between 2013 and 2015. Strook is also among the leaders of the Jewish settlement in Hebron, and she established the Israeli non-governmental organization Human Rights Organization of Judea and Samaria, which she headed between 2004 and 2012.[2]