The Michaelson Institute for Rehabilitation of Vision was established in Jerusalem in 1973 by the world-renowned Professor I.C. Michaelson. The Institute is an integral part of the Department of Ophthalmology, offering services to children, young adults, and senior citizens with low vision. The aims of the Institute include diagnosis, counseling, and support for patients with low vision, in order to enable them to acclimate successfully and independently in their daily lives.

The Institute provides a multidisciplinary approach, specializing in low vision. The staff is comprised of Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, a Genetic Counselor, and a Social worker, all specializing in low vision. Among the special services offered by the Institute are diagnoses of diseases causing low vision, genetic counseling for ocular genetic diseases, social counseling and family therapy, and visual rehabilitation with individually-fitted low vision aids that are loaned to the patient for a trial period for use in their home environment.

The Institute's expertise includes all diseases that result in low vision; such as, albinism, aniridia, optic atrophy, macular degeneration (familial or age-related), retinal degenerative diseases (among them retinitis pigmentosa), infantile nystagmus, glaucoma, Leber's Amaurosis, Retinopathy of prematurity, and cerebral visual impairment.