The Movement for Democracy and Aliyah , commonly known as Da , was a minor Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i political party founded by immigrants from the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 in the early 1990s.

History

The party was established in 1992 and sought to have the well-known refusenik Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky was born in Stalino, Soviet Union on 20 January 1948 to a Jewish family. He graduated with a degree in applied mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. As a child, he was a chess prodigy. He performed in simultaneous and blindfold displays, usually against...

 head its list. After several changes of heart, Sharansky turned the offer down.

Led by Yuli Kosharovsky, in the elections that year

Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party, though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the electoral threshold and thus effectively...

 the party won 11,697 votes (0.4% of the total, and around 5% of the immigrant vote), and failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1.5%. Most Russian immigrants voted for the Israeli Labor Party.

Notable members included Gennady Riger

Gennady Riger

Gennady Riger is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah between 1999 and 2003.-Biography:Born in the Soviet Union, Riger studied mechanical engineering at Lviv University, obtaining a second degree. He worked as an engineer before making aliyah to...

, who later served as general secretary and a MK for Yisrael BaAliyah, another immigrant party.