The Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees approved the establishment of the Institute on a hill among the hills of the suburbs of Jerusalem, which is only three kilometers away from Al-Aqsa Mosque. The construction was carried out in the town of Abu Dis, adjacent to the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the year 1966. The Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works undertook the preparation of the designs and plans, and contributed by providing engineering staff to supervise the implementation of the first phase, which included educational buildings, laboratories, and boarding housing.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait at that time, donated one hundred thousand Kuwaiti dinars, to which was added governmental and popular support from Kuwait amounting to two hundred thousand dinars, enabling the launch of the construction project in 1966.
The foundation stone was laid under the patronage of the late Emir of Kuwait and King Hussein bin Talal on March 17, 1966.
With the outbreak of the June 5, 1967 war, once Jerusalem was occupied, the Israeli army came to the construction site and had a plan to seize it. The Board of Trustees in Jerusalem took notice and brought a group of orphans from the surrounding areas to reside in the building, which prevented the takeover of the facilities. The occupation of Jerusalem led to the temporary halt of construction, which was then resumed in 1971, when the Institute began receiving students in the same year, continuing since then to fulfill its mission.
Today, after more than half a century, the Institute has become a prominent educational institution, having graduated more than 4,000 students in various fields of education up to the end of the 2024/2025 school year, most of them orphans, children of martyrs, and the needy. Its impact has extended to various parts of Palestine, contributing to the support of the resilience of education in Jerusalem and the protection of national identity in the face of attempts at Israelization and erasure.