sentences:  Towards the end of his term, he left the party along with Hanan Porat and formed the "Emunim" faction, which soon after changed its name to Tkuma.As part the Tkuma party, he joined the National Union list, and was elected to the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Knessets.In the 15th Knesset, he served as chairman of the Aliyah, Absorption, and Diaspora committee.