This year on Independence Day, Ynet News offers you 20 spectacular aerial photographs taken over the past year from the north to the south.

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The pictures were taken by Israel Bardugo from an “Israel on Air” helicopter. Berdugo, who photographs in Israel and around the world, won a prize last year from the prime minister for his special photography of the Western Wall.

Courtesy of Israel on Air (באדיבות: ישראל באוויר)

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Every flight around the world, he says, "only sharpened my understanding that the region in which we live is no less than amazing. There is no country more beautiful than the land of Israel”

The Marina in Ashdod (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Olga shores (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

The Dead Sea (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Gordon swimming pool in Tel Aviv (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Judean desert (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Beaches in Tel Aviv (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Religous ceremony on Mt. Meron during Lag BaOmer (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Damascus Gate in the Old City to Jerusalem (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Jezreel Valley (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Date farm in the Arava valley in the Negev (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Masada (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Ben Gurion International Airport (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Beach in Tel Aviv (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

The Old City of Akko (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Tank Museum in Latrun (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Mar Saba Monastery, Kidron Valley (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Western Wall Plaza (Photo: Israel Berdugo)

Pelicans in a fish pond in Kibbutz Ma'ayan Tzvi (Photo: Israel Berdugo)