Motza
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Motza (or Motsa) (Hebrew: מוֹצָא) is a neighbourhood in the western edge of Jerusalem, Israel, located 600 metres above sea level. In the Judean Hills, surrounded by forest, it is a relatively isolated place connected to Jerusalem by the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway and the winding mountain road to Har Nof. Originally, the first modern Jewish neighbourhood outside the Old City, Motza is located on the site of a Biblical village of the same name, mentioned in Joshua 18:26. It was the scene of a violent attack in the 1929 Palestine riots.