JERUSALEM — The front-page headline in Yedioth Ahronoth, a popular Hebrew newspaper, above a large photograph of President Trump, summed up the feelings of many Israelis in one word: “Shame.”

It was a reference to Mr. Trump’s defiant attempts this week to apportion equal blame to the “alt-left” for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend and the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated the protests.

It also contrasted with the unusual reticence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, a powerful orator who often communicates directly through video clips, scathing Facebook posts and statements from his office, but who has remained uncharacteristically tongue-tied about Mr. Trump’s remarks.

The piercing images of the torchlight march at the University of Virginia, with its Nazi symbols and chants of “Jews will not replace us,” reverberated across Israel, the homeland of, and a refuge for, Jews that was established in the wake of the Holocaust.