An Israeli court on Sunday convicted a Palestinian of attempted murder for orchestrating a terror attack in south Tel Aviv last summer.

Tel Aviv District Court judges said Mohammed Zofan, 21, from the West Bank city of Kalkilya, injured eight people in August after car-jacking a taxi and ramming it into Border Police officers and bystanders outside a night club. He then went on a stabbing spree, in which several other people were injured.

Itai Weinberg, a 19-year-old Israeli critically injured in the attack, later died of his wounds.

The court convicted Zofan of four additional charges, including robbery, injury with serious intent, conspiracy to commit a crime and illegal residency in Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported.

State prosecutors said they rejected a plea bargain with the defendant, who was apprehended at the scene of the attack and later admitted the charges against him, since the severity of his offenses did not justify any mitigation, the report said.

The court also charged Mohammed bin Saddam Hussein Biari, a 21- year-old Arab Israeli who assisted in planning the attack, with conspiracy to commit a crime and destroying evidence.

The two men met at a mosque in south Tel Aviv, where they plotted the attack for several weeks; they initially planned to stab Israeli security forces and civilians near the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, but Zofan later opted to strike in Tel Aviv with the declared goal of becoming a "martyr," according to the indictment.

The court is scheduled to convene on April 18 to hear arguments for sentencing.