Jacob Pinkerfield[a] (Hebrew: יעקב פינקרפלד; 1897 – 23 September 1956) was an Israeli archaeologist and architect.

He joined Hashomer Hatzair in his youth and later studied architecture at the College of Technology in the city of Vienna.

Together with a group of friends he founded "Ganza", the Society for Jewish Craft, which later became the Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in Tel Aviv, and acted as its Director from 1950 until his death.

[1] He worked on excavations at de:Tell el-Kheleifeh, which Nelson Glueck at the time had mistakenly identified as Solomon's Ezion-geber,[2] and at the putative site of the Church of Zion on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, his findings forming the basis of Bargil Pixner's thesis of a pre-Crusader Jewish-Christian church on the site.

[3] Pinkerfeld was one of the four Israeli archaeologists killed by Jordanian soldiers in the Ramat Rachel shooting attack on 23 September 1956.