Исраэль ба-Алия
For the 1999 elections he was placed sixth on the Yisrael BaAliyah list, and entered the Knesset as the party won six seats. On 20 July 1999, just over a month after the elections, Tzinker and Roman Bronfman left the party to establish a new Knesset faction; six days later it was renamed "Mahar" (a Hebrew acronym for Party for Society and Reforms), and in October adopted the name "Democratic Choice".