However, the Likud's first prime minister and long-time leader Menachem Begin, though secular himself, cultivated a warm attitude to Jewish tradition and appreciation for traditionally religious Jews—especially from North Africa and the Middle East.
然而，利库德集团的第一位總理和主席梅纳赫姆·贝京雖然本身是世俗，但其對猶太傳統和對傳統宗教猶太人，特別是來自北非和中東的傳統猶太人，非常欣賞他們的熱情態度。