Minister Orit Strock: "If I hadn't become religious, I would be at Kaplan"

Minister of National Missions Orit Strock revealed today (Thursday) a lesser-known side of her personal life story, sharing that she grew up in a traditional home that held distinctly left-wing views. In the new episode of the web program "On the Way to the Ballot Box with Dana Varon," broadcast on the C14 YouTube channel, the minister was asked where she would be today had she not chosen to become religious, and she surprised with her honest answer.

"Left, very strong left," Minister Strock described the home in which she grew up, sharing that her family members would regularly debate between voting for the Labor party and voting for the Meretz party.

When asked directly by the hosts whether she would be protesting today at Kaplan had she not become religious, the minister replied without hesitation: "Very well could be, yes. Very well could be."

Alongside the left-wing political views, Strock clarified that her family maintained a traditional connection. The home itself was kosher, her father used to take her to the synagogue, and the family made sure to perform Kiddush on Friday nights, but outside the home they also ate in non-kosher places. Later in the interview, the minister returned to the process of her drawing closer to religion and shared that it was actually her parents who initially encouraged her to take an interest in Judaism.

Over time, Strock's parents understood that this was not a passing interest but a real way of life. "Later they understood that I had taken it too far," the minister shared. The significant turning point came when she introduced them to the man who would later become her husband. Her mother saw that she was about to marry a yeshiva student, and understood that the change had become permanent and that it was not a temporary craze or a passing hobby.