The faction was formed on 25 December 1990 when
Efraim Gur broke away from the
Alignment in 1990, during the term of the
twelfth Knesset. Gur was invited to join
Yitzhak Shamir's
new government, which had been formed (minus the Alignment) on 11 June 1990, and accepted. He was initially appointed Deputy Minister of Communications, but became Deputy
Minister of Transportation in November 1990. Towards the end of the Knesset term, Gur merged his faction into
Likud on 17 May 1992. Gur retained his seat in the
1992 elections on Likud's list, but broke away from his new party in March 1996 and saw out the remainder of his term as an independent. He formed a new party under the name
Unity for New Immigrants () which ran in the
1996 elections but failed to cross the
electoral threshold and subsequently disappeared. ==References==