Orit Strook
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| Date of birth | 15 March 1960 |
| Place of birth | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Knessets | 19 |
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| 2013–2015 | Jewish Home |
Orit Malka Strook (Hebrew: אורית מלכה סטרוק, born 15 March 1960) is an Israeli politician. She served as a 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.
Strook was born to a family of lawyers from Jerusalem. Her middle name Malka was given to her in memory of her grandmother, whom was the prominent Hungarian Jewish poet Mária Kecskeméti. Growing up, Strook studied at the Hebrew University Secondary School. In the late 1970s, while she was in the 11th grade, Strook gradually became more religious, and eventually became a Baalat Teshuvah, embracing Orthodox Judaism. During that period, she began studying at the religious Zionistoutreach organization and yeshiva Meir Institute. Shortly thereafter, she married the son of Orthodox Rabbi and politician Rabbi Haim Drukman. The young couple briefly lived together in the Israeli settlement of Yamit in the Sinai Peninsula, but after Sinai was handed over to Egypt in 1982 as part of the terms of the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, and Yamit was evacuated, Strook and her family joined the Jewish settler community in Hebron.
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