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David Pincus is a Philadelphia apparel manufacturer and philanthropist who is founder and first chairman of American Friends of the Israel Sports Centre for the Physically Disabled (the Ilan Centre) in Ramat Gan, Israel. A senior vice president of Maccabi USA/Sports for Israel for more than twenty years, and organizing chairman of the U.S. Maccabiah track and field teams of 1985 and 1989, he has also provided private scholarships to promising Israeli track athletes.