"The history of the wall dates back to April 14, 2002, the years of the second intifada (2000-2005), when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced the construction of a separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank. Construction plans, however, went back to '95 when the then Labor prime minister Yitzhak Rabin presented a project to block the infiltration of terrorists into Israeli territory. Israeli writer Abraham Ben Yehoshua was one of the earliest advocates of construction for a physical separation between Israelis and Palestinians."
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