the Belz community has established a variety of self-help organizations, including one of the largest patient-advocacy organizations of its kind, a free medical counseling center, and an affordable medical treatment clinic in the New York area. Under the Rebbe's leadership, the Belz Hasidut has grown from a few hundred families at the time of his accession to leadership in 1966, to over 11,000 families, as of 2022. United Kingdom In London, the Belz community is now centred in Stamford Hill. In the 1930s, an early Belz synagogue was on Commercial Road, Limehouse, in the East End. United States and Canada Belz in the USA was founded in the 1800s, in the time of the Third Belzer Rebbe, Yissachar Dov Rokeach. The first Belz synagogue was rented in East Side Manhattan. Today, the largest number of Belzer Hasidim outside of Israel lives in the United States, mostly in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, which has eleven Belzer synagogues and more than twenty Dayanim rabbis. Belz is one of the biggest Hasidic communities in Borough Park, exceeding Vizhnitz, and Ger. Belz in the New York metropolitan area also has communities and synagogues in Williamsburg, and in Staten Island. More Belz communities in New York State are located in Monsey, New York, and Spring Valley, New York. A new Belz development site was built in 2015 in Lakewood, New Jersey and today lives there over three hundred families. Belz operates five local summer camps—three in the Catskill Mountains, one in Saratoga Springs, New York, and one in Val-Morin, Quebec. Los Angeles is also home to a large Belz community, specifically residing in Los Angeles' Beverly-La-Brea and Hancock Park Districts. Belz in the United States and Canada counts over 4000 families; Belz operates five local Yeshiva Ketanas—three in the New York metropolitan area, one in Monsey, New York, and one in Montreal, Quebec. In December 2015, Belz bought a half-acre property in West Brighton, Staten Island, for $1.8 million, to develop a new Yeshiva Ketana complex. Belz hosted New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio in 2013 at an annual Dinner. The dinner took place in Brooklyn. The Belz World Center In the 1980s, Rabbi Yissachar Dov spearheaded plans for a huge synagogue to be erected in the Kiryat Belz neighborhood of Jerusalem. The building, which would have four entrances accessible to each of the four streets of the hilly