The Western Border Fence.
The western border fence with Egypt was erected in 2011 to stop the wave of migration from Africa into Israel. Following the attack on Route 12, which occurred that same year, the fence was extended to the Eilat Mountains. The fence brought about a dramatic security, civilian, and environmental change, transforming from an open area, through which the last refugees entered, into a landscape scarred by a dense, six-meter-high iron fence and concertina wire.