An Israeli Jew was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday for stabbing another Jew he thought was an Arab in a racially motivated attack, a court said.
The Haifa District Court ruling said Shlomo Haim Pinto, a 32-year-old resident of Kiryat Ata in northern Israel, had on October 13, 2015 set out to "find and kill an Arab" in revenge for near daily "terror attacks".
Armed with a kitchen knife, a box cutter and a hammer, he stabbed a Jewish supermarket employee, mistakenly thinking he was an Arab.
The assailant, who confessed, entered a plea of insanity which was rejected.
The court convicted him of attempted murder and possession of a weapon with intent to carry out a racist killing.
His victim, who was wounded, will receive 50,000 Israeli shekels ($13,635) compensation from Pinto.
Since a wave of violence broke out in October 2015, 252 Palestinians, 41 Israelis, two Americans, a Jordanian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese have died.
The rate of attacks has declined sharply in recent months.
