Orit Noked was born in Israel in 1952 and lives in Kibbutz Shefayim. After completing her army service with the rank of staff sergeant, she completed a BA degree in law, becoming an attorney by profession.

Noked served as Legal Advisor to the Kibbutz Movement (1986-1992) and as Director of the Legal Department of the Kibbutz movement (1996-2002). She also served as a member of the Jewish National Fund Directorate, the Israel Lands Authority Governing Board, the Agricultural Association Secretariat, the Directorate of the Kibbutz Movement Arbitration Institute, and the National Council for Environmental Quality.

First elected to the 15th Knesset (1999), she was a Member of Knesset until 2013. Noked has served, among others, as a member of the Knesset Finance Committee, the Labor, Welfare, and Health Committee, the Education, Culture, and Sports Committee, the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women, and the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of the Child. An active lobbyist, she has chaired the lobbies for a healthy lifestyle, for youth movements, for consumer protection, the Galil and the Negev, as well as the municipal and pensioners' lobbies.

Orit Noked served as Deputy Minister to Vice Premier Shimon Peres from January to November 2005, when Labor resigned from the government.

Orit Noked served as Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor from April 2009 until January 2011, when she was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, serving until March 2013.

She is married with three children