Helen Keller left Israel today after a two-week visit to this country. She called upon Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of Israel, at his Rehovoth home yesterday and gave a farewell lecture at the YMCA in Jerusalem for the newly-established Society for the Blind and for the Prevention of Blindness.
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