Yechiel Michel Pines (/piːnɪs/ PEE-nis)[1] (Hebrew: יְחִיאֵל מִיכְל פִּינֶס; 18 September 1824 – 15 March 1913) was a Russian-born religious Zionist rabbi, writer, and community leader in the Old Yishuv.

He received both a religious and secular Jewish education, and was mentored by Rabbi Mordechai Gimpel Jaffe, an early leader of Ḥovevei Zion.

He was elected delegate to a conference held in London by the association Mazkereth Moshe, for the establishment of charitable institutions in Palestine in commemoration of the name of Sir Moses Montefiore.

In 1878 he settled in Jerusalem, at the home of his relative Yosef Rivlin, to establish and organize such institutions.

[3] At the end of his life, Pines was an instructor in Talmud at the Hebrew Teachers' Seminary in Jerusalem.