Rabbi Dr. Pincus Ingberman

Rabbi Pincus Ingberman, 35, was a passenger on El Al Flight 402, which was shot down by two Bulgarian MiG-15 jet fighters and crashed near Petrich, Bulgaria, killing all passengers and crew aboard.

He was born in Maków Mazowiecki, Poland, in 1920. At some point in 1940 he was living as a refugee in Vilna. [https://search.archives.jdc.org/notebook_ext.asp?item=246553&site=i...] He immigrated to the United States after World War II, on December 11, 1946. [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/194836163:2238]

He named Yeshiva Beth Joseph Borough Park, Brooklyn, an institution which helped bring him to America, as the beneficiary of a policy he took out before he left the United States. Three days before his fatal trip, Rabbi Ingberman received a Ph.D. from Dropsie College. After that, a letter found in his home revealed, he wrote a letter to his brother in Israel, whom he hadn't seen for 20 years, and again put off the trip which he was afraid to make. Apparently, however, he changed his mind, left the letter unmailed, and boarded the plane. [https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=JPOST19550805-01.1.3&e=---...]

הרב פנחס אינגברמן, בן 42, מברוקלין. הוא הודיע לפני כמה ימים לאחיו יוסף אינגברמן חבר ״דן״ המתגורר ברמת-גן, כי הוא עומד לבוא ארצה במשלחת בקשר לפתיחת האוניברסיטה ״בר-אילן״ בבני-ברק. [https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/hbkr/1955/07/29/01/article/77/...]