 Another dispute led to Tamir and Nof leaving Likud and re-establishing the party as an independent faction on 26 October 1976 during the eighth Knesset.Both resigned from the Knesset on 25 January 1977, and joined the Democratic Movement for Change.They were both elected to the ninth Knesset as members of the new party, though Nof later defected back to Likud after a spell in Ahva.