World’s oldest man dead in Israel at 113: media

Israeli Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, certified last year by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest man, died today aged 113, Israeli media reported.

Since he was an observant Jew, his family could not be reached this evening, the onset of the Jewish sabbath.

“Yisrael Kristal... died on Friday a month before his 114th birthday,” Haaretz daily reported in its online edition.

News site Ynet said



he was survived by two children, 9 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.

Kristal, originally from Zarnow in what is now Poland, was born on September 15, 1903 — three months before the Wright brothers’ first successful powered airplane flight.

Guinness World Records recognised him as the world’s oldest man in March 2016.

In September he celebrated his Bar Mitzvah after a century-long delay.