Photo Credit: Jewish Press
Visiting Israel in May-June 1952 to raise awareness and to promote equal rights for disabled individuals, she worked with the Jewish Institute for the Blind, which presented her with a silver-covered Chumash. She visited President Chaim Weizmann at his Rechovot home and Golda Meir, then Israel’s minister of labor. The two women maintained a friendship through an active exchange of correspondence after Keller returned to the United States. The Association of the Deaf in Israel, established in 1944, is currently located in the Helen Keller House (completed 1958) in central Tel Aviv, and there is a Helen Keller Street in Lod.
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