vote and 15 seats in the general election. 1978: Dash splits into the Democratic Movement and the Movement for Change and Initiative. 1981: The Movement for Change and Initiative renames itself Shinui. 1988: Shinui is renamed Shinui–Center Party. 1992: The party merges with Mapam and Ratz to form Meretz, a social-democratic party. 1998: Avraham Poraz leads a split from Meretz and recreates Shinui as an independent party. 1999: Tommy Lapid is invited by Poraz to head Shinui. 2003: The party wins 12.3% of the vote and 15 seats in the general election. 2006: Lapid leaves Shinui and Poraz forms Hetz. 2006: Both Shinui and Hetz fail to win any seats in the general election. 2012: Poraz allows Tzipi Livni to use the Hetz's infrastructure to base her new party, Hatnua. 2012: Yair Lapid, Tommy's son, launches Yesh Atid. 2013: In the general election Yesh Atid wins 14.3% and 19 seats. 2015: In the general election Yesh Atid is reduced to 8.8% of the vote and 11 seats. 2018: Benny Gantz launches the Hosen, a broad centrist party whose economic goals are liberal. Orly Levy, a splinter from Yisrael Beiteinu, forms Gesher. 2019: In the run-up of the April general election Yesh Atid, Hosen and the newly-formed Telem, led by former Likud minister Moshe Ya'alon, join forces into Blue and White. The list wins 26.1% and 35 seats, while Gesher 1.7% and no seats. In the September general election the Blue and White list comes first with 26.1% and 33 seats, while Gesher obtains one seat for its leader Levy in alliance with the Labor Party. 2020: In the general election Blue and White increases its tallies to 26.6% and 33 seats, but comes second after Likud. After the election, Blue and White splits over the formation of a national-unity government along with Likud: Hosen, which retains the "Blue and White" name, on one side, Yesh Atid and Telem on the other. In the event, a minority faction of Telem splits and forms Derekh Eretz, supporting the national-unity government along with Hosen. In December Derekh Eretz joins New Hope. Also in December Ofer Shelah, a splinter from Yesh Atid, announces his intent of forming a new political party named Tnufa, while, on the left, Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai leaves the Labor Party to launch The Israelis, which was joined also by leading splinters from Hosen / Blue and White. 2021: