In the 1980s , Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach , the fifth Belzer Rebbe , spearheaded plans for the huge synagogue to be erected in the Kiryat Belz neighborhood of Jerusalem .
In the 1980s , Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach ( II ) of Belz made plans for the huge synagogue to be built in the Kiryat Belz part of Jerusalem .