Yechiel Michel Pines, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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rabbi and Zionist writer
Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1824
Place of Birth: Grodno, Belarus
Date of Death: 15-Mar-1913
Profession: writer, rabbi
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Yechiel Michel Pines
- Yechiel Michel Pines (Hebrew: ???????? ?????? ???????; 18 September 1824 – 15 March 1913) was a Russian-born religious Zionist rabbi, writer, and community leader in the Old Yishuv. Yechiel Michel Pines was born at Ruzhinoy, near Grodno.
- He was the son of Noah Pines and the son-in-law of Shemariah Luria, rabbi of Mogilev.
- He received both a religious and secular Jewish education, and was mentored by Rabbi Mordechai Gimpel Jaffe, an early leader of ?ovevei Zion, and Leon Zamenhof, the brother of L.
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- Zamenhof.He later became a merchant, giving lectures at the same time in the yeshiva of his native town.
- 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.At the end of his life, Pines was an instructor in Talmud at the Hebrew Teachers' Seminary in Jerusalem.
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