Meir Feinstein (Hebrew: מאיר פיינשטיין; 30 June 1929 – 21 April 1947)[2] was an Irgun member during the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine.

As a boy, he received a religious education; he studied at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva for ten years, and was a disciple of Aryeh Levin.

During his military training, Feinstein, an aspiring writer, educated himself in secular subjects with books sent to him by his brother from Jerusalem.

[citation needed] In 1944, during World War II, after rumors of the Holocaust began spreading, Feinstein enlisted in the British Army.

Feinstein was accepted and served for two and a half years in the Royal Engineers, during which he was stationed in Palestine, Alexandria, and Beirut.

He initially worked in the Irgun's propaganda section, but was eventually promoted to join the Combat Corps.

The Irgun raiders arrived in two taxis, and Feinstein drove the one carrying the bombs which were to be used - three suitcases filled with explosives.

The team then rushed into the station, laid the three suitcase bombs, and put up a sign warning of mines.

Despite his injury, Feinstein managed to drive the taxi, under a hail of British gunfire, away from the station using only one arm.

[8] After escaping, Feinstein drove the taxi to Jerusalem's Yemin Moshe quarter, where the team then scattered, hoping to slip away.

Shortly afterward, the police discovered the abandoned taxi, riddled by bullets and with blood-soaked seats, in the Yemin Moshe quarter.

Before the reading of the verdict, Feinstein gave a defiant speech against British rule, saying: Officers of the army of conquest!

We, who have listened for years to the rattling of the wheels of them Railroad cars, who led our brothers, our parents, the best of our nation - to slaughter, which too had no precedent in human history?

And to these recurring questions, there is in our conscience but one answer: we remained alive not to live and await in conditions of slavery and oppression, a new Treblinka.

Before carrying out the operation, the Lehi waited for the approval of Irgun commander Menachem Begin, because Feinstein was from the rival group.

[16] Just before his death, Feinstein gave to British prison guard Thomas Henry Goodwin, whom he and Barazani had nicknamed "the good jailer", a copy of the Bible, inscribed in Hebrew and English, "In the shadow of the gallows, 21.4.47.

In 2007, Goodwin's son Dennis donated the Bible to Feinstein's nephew Eliezer, who received it on behalf of the Museum of Underground Prisoners in Jerusalem at a commemorative state ceremony.