From osprey clutching a fish to desert horned viper hiding - Israel's best nature photos of the year

To mark the Jewish New Year, members of the Israeli Nature Photography Society have released more than 100 stunning images captured over the past year (5785 on the Hebrew calendar). Here's a glimpse

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Osprey catching a fish 
(Photo: Roni Livneh)

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Vixen and fox cub 
(Photo: Liora Levin)

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Cormorant and a fish 
(Photo: Tzahi finkelsteinן)

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Desert horned viper 
(Photo: Harel Dahan)

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Long-eared owl 
(Photo: Marlen Noy)

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Flamingo portrait 
(Photo: Gal Sherbelis)

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Onager at sunrise 
(Photo: Boaz Amidror)

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Sparrowhawk 
(Photo: Shani Smarady )

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Cranes 
(Photo: Tal-Zohara Lavi )

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Cranes against the backdrop of the moon 
(Photo: Piki Ish Shalom)

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Barn swallow 
(Photo: Eran Blich)

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Little owl 
(Photo: Pablo Rudaeff)

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Veliger in Eilat 
(Photo: Gil Koplovitz)

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Tristram’s starlings and an ibex at sunrise 
(Photo: Gad Shmila)

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Great crested grebe courting 
(Photo: Eden Akiva)

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Shelduck 
(Photo: Uri Kaufman)

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Elegant racer 
(Photo: Moshe Dahan)

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Stunning nudibranch 
(Photo: Amir Fireman)

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Harmony in nature 
(Photo: Micha Auerbach)

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Mount Zin from a bird’s-eye view 
(Photo: Matan Wild)

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A nocturnal raptor at sunset 
(Photo: Omri Madar)

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Porcupine in the Negev 
(Photo: Ilana Shapira)

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A female dolphin in Eilat 
(Photo: Gal Cohen)

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A dialogue between a cormorant and a tilapia 
(Photo: Jacob Bahar)

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Black-winged kites 
(Photo: Eliran Sagie)

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Eurasian wren 
(Photo: Micha Mandel)

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Osprey 
(Photo: Miki Alkobi)

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Flamingo 
(Photo: Chen Ein-Dor)

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Grass octopus 
(Photo: Ilan Ben Tov)

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Bee-eater emerging from the water 
(Photo: Nitzan Dan)

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Osprey 
(Photo: Neomi Zehavi Goldshtein)

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Bee-eaters 
(Photo: Golan Erez)

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A startled hare 
(Photo: Udi Dror)

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Ascalaphus 
(Photo: Noa Avhar)

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White-throated robin (Irania) in Kibbutz Mashabei Sadeh 
(Photo: Dubi Kalay)

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Savigny's treefrog 
(Photo: Yossi Shohat)

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European honey buzzard 
(Photo: Talmud Rafael)

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Jackal 
(Photo: Adi Badash)

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A jackal in a wheat field 
(Photo: Assi Dvilanski)

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Arabian green bee-eater 
(Photo: Micha Miost)

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Sunset at Ashkelon beach 
(Photo: Nikolay Tatarchuk)

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A dragonfly and its exuvia 
(Photo: Nir Avigad)

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Bridled tern 
(Photo: Tsvi Schwarzfuchs)

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Caspian tern in Eilat 
(Photo: Yechiel Lamesh)

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common terns courting 
(Photo: Eliya Halbertal)
The Israeli Nature Photography Association is a nonprofit organization founded by and for nature photographers. Its purpose is to help nature photographers in Israel learn and develop through mutual exchange, sharing, study, joint meetings and lectures, while at the same time raising the profile of nature photography in Israel and strengthening its contribution to society and environmental conservation.
For more photographs, visit the association’s Facebook page.