[5] The group was founded as an art cooperative by the collector Jacob Pereman and included the artists Yitzhak Frenkel,[5] the sculptor Liv Halperin, Miriam Had Gadya, Judith and Yosef Konstantinovsky (later Constant).
The members of the cooperative had to earn a living by decorating buildings and selling works of art, but due to the small number of orders, they mainly engaged in decorating ceramic vessels, books, posters, pamphlets, fountains and more as well as establishing an art school in Jaffa.
Two of the artists of the cooperative: Frenkel and Constant taught art in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium.
[4] The exhibition was presented for only a week before being dismantled due to the events surrounding the 1920 pogrom that had just broken out.
The cooperative stopped functioning soon after its prominent members had left, thus ended the first modern art group in the Yishuv.