Israeli President Yitzchak Herzog Herzog published a special column in Israeli media on Thursday. Although he didn’t mention the name of Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman , the column was obviously a reaction to Lieberman ’s brazen mockery of lomdei Torah and his stated intent to harm them financially. “There is no other nation whose history, identity, and depth of existence have been shaped by engaging in and studying a sefer like the Jewish people,” Herzog wrote. “’The Jewish nation is a nation only by virtue of the Torah ,’ Rav Saadiah Gaon stated. The Torah , the written Torah and...