(Ha'aretz) Amnon Barzilai - The route of the separation fence has been shortened to 640 kilometers, 80 km less than the government approved last October, the head of the Technology and Logistics Branch in the IDF, Brig. Gen. Eran Ophir, said Tuesday. 37 km - 5% - will be concrete walls because the topographic considerations in densely populated urban areas required a wall; 29 km of those walls will be in the Jerusalem envelope area.
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