Israel’s West Bank wall has not achieved its intended purpose of creating a territorial divide between Israelis and Palestinians. The wall is unfinished, yet its apparent length is deceptive because of the existence of various other checking devices (check points, electronic sensors, an earth-covered “trace road”, Israeli settlements, etc.). Based on an ethnographic study, this article considers the various factors that, in spite of this, have led a great many Israelis to internalize the idea of a separation from the Palestinians.