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Ilana Mercer is a writer, born in South Africa to Rabbi Ben Isaacson and raised in Israel, where the family decided to move after Rabbi Ben Isaacson's anti-apartheid preaching and activism led to their harassment by South African security forces.

She is a Canadian citizen currently residing in the United States.

Mercer writes a weekly column, "Return to Reason", for WorldNetDaily. She has written for Front Page Magazine, Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, The Financial Post, Orange County Register, The American Spectator, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and others.

She is a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, an independent, non-profit, economic policy think tank.

Books

Mercer's first book, Broad Sides: One Woman's Clash With a Corrupt Culture, was published in ; a second edition with new material was issued in late It is a collection of essays, offering a "wide-ranging exploration o