[4][5] Orna Berry was born in Jerusalem to Raissa and Yoash Tsiddon (Chatto) and was raised and educated in Tel Aviv.

In 1967, she drafted into the Israeli Air Force, where she served as an officer for the flying school until 1970, terminating her military service as a lieutenant.

She decided to return to Israel in 1987 to work for the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory where she was involved with hardware simulations on different Intel chip architectures.

[30] She also served as director of Poalim Capital Markets[31] and publicly traded companies including Aladdin Knowledge Systems,[32] Alvarion,[33] and Commtouch.

[34] In late 2006, Berry was elected chairperson of the Israeli Venture Capital Funds Association (IVA),[35] where she served for 3 years.

Berry returned to the private sector in October 2021 when she was appointed director of technology in the office of the CTO at Google Cloud.

[4][5] Berry's involvement in the academic, public and business sectors are intertwined with volunteer activities which are based on her stated goal to harness information technology (IT) for empowering knowledge and other research areas, and to create social progress and economic growth among the local Israeli community and the international community in the U.S. and Europe.

[48] Berry was a member of the WIR (Women in Industrial Research) expert group which presented findings to The European Commission.

[54] Berry has been the recipient of the following awards: Berry's mother, Raisa Shrira, was a nurse who served in the Palmach[72] and the camps in Cyprus during the British administration in Israel, as well as in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer and the public orthodox health care services in Bnei Brak after the establishment of the state of Israel.

As an entrepreneur and industrialist, Tsiddon won the title of "Outstanding Exporter" and later on was elected to the Knesset as a member of Tzomet party.