イスラエルで首相への抗議デモ　「対人距離」守りつつ大勢参加

【テルアビブＡＦＰ＝時事】イスラエルのテルアビブで19日、ベンヤミン・ネタニヤフ首相と元政敵で野党連合「青と白」を率いるベニー・ガンツ元軍参謀総長の間で進行中の連立協議が「民主主義への脅威」となっていると警告する人々による抗議デモが行われた。（写真はテルアビブで行われた抗議デモで、対人距離を確保しながら参加する人々）
　メディアの推定によると、フェイスブックでの呼び掛けに応じて約２０００人が参加。大半の人が黒い服を身にまとい、マスクを着用して、新型コロナウイルス対策として実施されているソーシャル・ディスタンシング（対人距離の確保）を順守しながらデモを行った。
　参加者の中には、「民主主義に勝利を」と記されたプラカードを掲げる人や、汚職事件の公判を控えたネタニヤフ首相を指したとみられる「クライム・ミニスター（犯罪大臣、の意）」と書かれたマスクを着けた人々もいた。
　多くの人が、同国の民主主義に対する脅威の象徴として黒旗を振っていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/04/21-13:26）

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated Sunday in Tel Aviv to warn against what they said was a threat to democracy from ongoing coalition talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former rival Benny Gantz.
Some 2,000 protesters, according to media estimates, followed a call launched on Facebook by the Black Flag movement which condemns Netanyahu's continuing rule.
Israel's parliament was tasked with forming a government on Thursday after speaker Gantz and Netanyahu missed a deadline to seal an alliance, but negotiations between the sides were ongoing.
Israel's deeply divided 120-member parliament has no clear path towards a stable governing coalition, so the move risks prolonging the country's worst-ever political crisis.
Gantz and Netanyahu could still agree on an emergency unity government to help Israel confront the COVID-19 pandemic, prospect the protesters spoke out against.
Wearing protection masks and mostly dressed in black, the protesters observed social distancing rules in force to fight the coronavirus.
Let democracy win, said one placard, while some protesters had written Minister of Crime on their masks, an apparent reference to Netanyahu's upcoming trial for corruption.
Many waved black flags as a symbol for threats against Israel's democracy.
You don't fight corruption from within, said Yair Lapid, the new opposition leader, of his former ally Gantz. If you're inside, you're part of it.
Democracies in 21st Century died because good people are silent and weak people surrender, Lapid said.