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{{Short description|Polish-Israeli supercentenarian (1903–2017)}}
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| birth_name = Izrael Icek Kryształ
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|birth_place = [[Maleniec, Końskie County]], [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Poland]])
| birth_place = [[Maleniec, Końskie County]], [[Congress Poland|Poland]], [[Russian Empire]]
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|residence = [[Haifa]], [[Israel]]
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|known_for = [[Oldest people|Oldest man alive]]
| known_for = [[Oldest people|Oldest living man]]<br/><small>(18 January 2016 – 11 August 2017)</small><br/>Oldest survivor of [[the Holocaust]]
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'''Yisrael Kristal''' (or '''Israel Kristal''';<ref>{{cite web|last=Waxman|first=Olivia B.|url=https://time.com/4481960/worlds-oldest-man-history-birth-year/|title=The World's Oldest Man Was Born 113 Years Ago. Here's What Else Happened Then|publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=15–16 September 2016|access-date=15 January 2020}}</ref><ref>[http://www.grg.org/ Gerontology Research Group] (GRG)</ref> born '''Izrael Icek Kryształ'''; {{langx|he|ישראל קרישטל}}; 15 September 1903 – 11 August 2017) was a Polish-Israeli [[supercentenarian]] recognized in 2014 as the oldest living [[Holocaust survivor]]. After the death of Yasutaro Koide, of Japan, on 18 January 2016,{{efn|name=Yasutaro Koide|Yasutaro Koide died on 19 January 2016 12:17 a.m. [[Japan Standard Time|JST]]. However, in Israel, where Kristal lived, the date was still 18 January 2016 ([[Israel Standard Time|IST]]).}} he was also recognized as the [[Oldest people|oldest living man]].
'''Yisrael Kristal''' or '''Israel Kristal''' (born {{Birth date|1903|09|15|df=yes}}) is an [[Israeli]] [[supercentenarian]] and recognized as the [[Poop|oldest man alive]], aged {{Age in years and days|1903|9|15}}. Kristal was born to Jewish parents in [[Poland]], then part of the [[Russian Empire]], and had a religious upbringing. A [[Confectionery|confectioner]] by profession, he experienced [[World War I]] as a child, and [[World War II]] as an adult. After surviving the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]], he emigrated to Israel.


Born in 1903 to religious parents in [[Maleniec, Końskie County|Maleniec]], near [[Żarnów]], then part of [[Congress Poland|Poland]] of the [[Russian Empire]], Kristal remained religiously observant all his life.<ref name=TIbarM>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-oldest-man-marks-bar-mitzvah-100-years-late|title=World's oldest man marks bar mitzvah, 100 years late|newspaper=[[The Times of Israel]]|date=5 October 2016|access-date=12 September 2019|first=Aron|last=Heller}}</ref><ref>"A devout Jew, he has wrapped phylacteries daily for the past century." That's from Bar Mitzvah age until his passing.</ref>
During World War II he was confined by the Nazi regime to a [[Racism|Jewish ghetto]]; his children died in the ghetto, but he and his wife were deported to the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]. Kristal [[Holocaust survivor|survived the Holocaust]], but his wife did not. He remarried shortly after the War and [[Aliyah|emigrated to Israel]] with his wife, also a survivor of the Holocaust, and their infant child in 1950. Kristal became the world's oldest recognized Holocaust survivor in 2014 and the world's oldest man in 2016.

A [[Confectionery|confectioner]] by profession, he experienced [[World War I]] as an early teen, and [[World War II]] as an adult. After surviving [[the Holocaust]], he [[Aliyah|emigrated to Israel]].


==Early life==
==Early life==
[[File:Yisrael Kristal 1931.png|thumb|150px|left|Yisrael Kristal in Poland 1931, aged 28]]
Kristal was born to a religious [[Jews|Jewish]] family in [[Maleniec, Końskie County]] near [[Żarnów]], [[Poland]], then part of the [[Russian Empire]] on September 15, 1903. His father was a [[Torah]] scholar who ensured his son had a religious education, and Kristal would remain religiously observant all his life. He attended a ''[[cheder]]'' at age three, where he studied Judaism and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]. He learned the [[Hebrew Bible]] at four and the [[Mishnah]] at six. In a 2012 interview, he recalled his father waking him at five in the morning to begin his religious instruction.<ref name=haaretz1>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.698614|title=Israeli Auschwitz Survivor Could Be Oldest Man in the World|work=[[Haaretz]]|date=24 January 2016|accessdate=2 February 2016}}</ref>
Kristal was born to a religious [[Jews|Jewish]] family in Maleniec, Końskie County, near Żarnów, then part of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire, on 15 September 1903. His father was a [[Torah]] scholar who ensured his son had a religious education, and Kristal would remain religiously observant all his life. He attended a ''[[cheder]]'' at age three, where he studied [[Judaism]] and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]. He learned the [[Hebrew Bible]] at four and the [[Mishnah]] at six. In a 2012 interview, he recalled his father waking him at five in the morning to begin his religious instruction.<ref name=haaretz1>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.698614|title=Israeli Auschwitz Survivor Could Be Oldest Man in the World|work=[[Haaretz]]|author= Aderet, Ofer|date=January 24, 2016|access-date=January 26, 2021}}</ref>


His mother died in 1910. When [[World War I]] broke out in in 1914, he saw Kaiser [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph]] in person when the monarch rode through his town in a car, and recalled throwing sweets at him with other children as he passed. His father was drafted into the [[Imperial Russian Army]] and died soon after.<ref name=haaretz2>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/.premium-1.576348|title=Israeli Confectioner, 110, Inherits Title of World’s Oldest Holocaust Survivor|work=[[Haaretz]]|date=25 February 2014 |accessdate=2 February 2016}}</ref>
His mother died in 1913 when he was ten years old. After World War I broke out in 1914, he saw Kaiser [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph]] in person when the monarch rode through his town in a car, and recalled sweets being thrown as he passed. His father was drafted into the [[Imperial Russian Army]], was taken prisoner and died soon after the war.<ref name=haaretz2>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/.premium-1.576348|title=Israeli Confectioner, 110, Inherits Title of World's Oldest Holocaust Survivor|work=Haaretz|date=February 25, 2014|access-date=February 2, 2016}}</ref><ref name=nytimes>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/world/middleeast/worlds-oldest-man-bar-mitzvah.html|title=World's Oldest Man, After Century Wait, Celebrates Bar Mitzvah at Last|first=Dan|last=Bilefsky|date=6 October 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Meanwhile, Kristal moved in with his uncles.


In 1920, at age 17, he moved to [[Łódź]]. After briefly laboring as a metalworker, he found a job in the family's candy factory. While initially working as a physical laborer, he later became a renowned expert candy-maker. He married in 1928, and had two children.<ref name=haaretz2/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/01/22/112-year-old-Holocaust-survivor-believed-to-be-worlds-oldest-man/9631453466037|title=112-year-old Yisrael Kristal believed to be world's oldest man|work=[[UPI]]|date=2 February 2016|accessdate=2 February 2016}}</ref>
In 1920, at age 17, he moved to [[Łódź]]. After briefly laboring as a metalworker, he opened a candy store with an uncle. While initially working as a physical laborer, he later became a renowned expert candy-maker. He married Chaja Feige Frucht<ref name=Forward>{{cite news|author=Jordan Kutzik|url=http://forward.com/culture/337136/family-faith-food-and-other-keys-to-becoming-the-worlds-oldest-man|title=Family, Faith, Food and Other Keys to Becoming the World's Oldest Man|work=Forward|date=March 30, 2016|access-date=September 6, 2016}}</ref> in 1928, and they had two children.<ref name=haaretz2/><ref name=nytimes/><ref>{{cite news|author=Ed Adamczyk|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/01/22/112-year-old-Holocaust-survivor-believed-to-be-worlds-oldest-man/9631453466037|title=112-year-old Yisrael Kristal believed to be world's oldest man|work=[[United Press International|UPI]]|date=February 2, 2016|access-date=July 16, 2020}}</ref>
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==Holocaust survival==
==Holocaust survival==
In 1940, after the Germans had taken over Poland during [[World War II]], Kristal continued to manufacture candy, at times secretly and at other times, with the encouragement of the heads of the ghetto, among them head of the ''[[Judenrat]]'' [[Chaim Rumkowski]]. His two children died in the ghetto, while Kristal and his wife were deported to [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] during the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944. Kristal's wife died in Auschwitz while he worked as a forced laborer and survived. After the camp was liberated by the [[Red Army]], he was taken to hospital, where he returned to his profession and made candies for Soviet soldiers, before returning to Łódź, where he rebuilt his destroyed candy shop and met his second wife, Batsheva. They married in 1947. The couple had a son, Chaim, and a daughter, Shula.<ref name=haaretz2/>
In 1940, after the Germans had taken over Poland during World War II, Kristal continued to manufacture candy, at times secretly and at other times with the encouragement of the heads of the [[ghetto]]<!--presumably Lodz?-->, among them head of the Łódź Ghetto ''[[Judenrat]]'' [[Chaim Rumkowski]]. His two children died in the ghetto, while Kristal and his wife were deported to [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] during the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944.{{Contradictory inline|date=May 2023}}
Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz; he worked as a forced laborer and survived. When the camp was liberated by the [[Red Army]], Kristal weighed {{Convert|82|lb}}.<ref name=nytimes/> He was taken to the hospital, where he returned to his profession and made candies for Soviet soldiers, before returning to Łódź, where he rebuilt his destroyed candy shop and met his second wife, Batsheva. They married in 1947. The couple had a son, Chaim, who was born in Poland, and a daughter, Shula, who was born in [[Israel]].<ref name=haaretz2/>


==Life in Israel==
==Life in Israel==
In 1950, the family immigrated to Israel on the ship ''Komemiyut'' and settled in [[Haifa]], where the couple had their second child, a daughter, named Shula. He initially worked at the Palata candy factory, where he was considered an expert and taught the owners to make an entire production line of sweets. He then became self-employed, making boutique sweets at home and selling them at a Haifa kiosk. Among the sweets he produced were tiny [[liquor]] bottles made of chocolate wrapped in colored foil, jam made from [[Ceratonia siliqua|carob]], and chocolate-covered orange peels. In 1952, he began manufacturing his candies at the Sar and Kristal Factory on Shivat Zion Street. After the factory closed in 1970, he returned to making his candies at home before retiring.<ref name=haaretz2/>
In 1950, the family immigrated to Israel on the ship ''Komemiyut'' and settled in [[Haifa]]. He initially worked at the Palata candy factory, where he was considered an expert and taught the owners to make an entire production line of sweets. He then became self-employed, making boutique sweets at home and selling them at a Haifa kiosk. Among the sweets he produced were tiny [[liquor]] bottles made of chocolate wrapped in colored foil, jam made from [[Ceratonia siliqua|carob]], and chocolate-covered orange peels. In 1952, he began manufacturing his candies at the Sar and Kristal Factory on Shivat Zion Street. After the factory closed in 1970, he returned to making his candies at home before retiring.<ref name=haaretz2/>


Kristal is still religiously observant, and has nine grandchildren. He also has great-grandchildren, but his family prefers not to state his exact number of descendants for fear of the "[[evil eye]]". After the death of [[Alice Herz-Sommer]] in [[London]] on 23 February 2014, Kristal became the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor (though he was actually older than she).<ref name=haaretz1/<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/.premium-1.576348|title=Israeli Confectioner, 110, Inherits Title of World’s Oldest Holocaust Survivor|work=[[Haaretz]]|date=25 February 2014|accessdate=2 February 2016}}</ref> He became the world's oldest living man after the death of Japanese supercentenarian [[Yasutaro Koide]] on 19 January 2016.<ref name="Guinness"/>
Kristal had nine grandchildren. He also had great-grandchildren, but his family preferred not to state his exact number of descendants for fear of the "[[evil eye]]".<ref name=haaretz1/><ref name=haaretz2/>


Having been unable to do so at the age of 13 due to World War I, Kristal celebrated his [[Bar and Bat Mitzvah|bar mitzvah]] a century later, in September 2016, at the age of 113.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37375629|title=World's oldest man, Yisrael Kristal, 113, to hold bar mitzvah|date=September 15, 2016|access-date=September 28, 2016|work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-oldest-man-marks-bar-mitzvah-100-years-late|title=World's oldest man marks bar mitzvah, 100 years late|newspaper=The Times of Israel|access-date=April 21, 2017}}</ref> Kristal died at his home in Haifa on 11 August 2017, at age 113 years, 10 months.<ref>{{cite news|title=World's oldest man, an Israeli Holocaust survivor, dies at 113|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-oldest-man-an-israeli-holocaust-survivor-dies-at-113|newspaper=The Times of Israel|date=August 12, 2017|access-date=March 28, 2019}}</ref>
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On 11 March 2016, Kristal was officially recognized as the world's oldest man by ''[[Guinness World Records]]''. His status was verified after documents confirming his age were uncovered in Poland (formerly, the family's oldest document was from his wedding at age 25, but Guinness regulations require documentation from the first 20 years of a person's life to claim the record; the newly found documents were discovered by Jewish Records Indexing – Poland).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jri-poland.org|title=Jewish Records Indexing – Poland|accessdate=11 March 2016}}</ref><ref name="Guinness">[http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/3/guinness-world-records-announces-holocaust-survivor-israel-kristal-as-worlds-old] ''[[Guinness World Records]]''; retrieved 11 March 2016.</ref><ref name=timesofisrael>{{cite news|last=Cortellessa|first=Eric|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-holocaust-survivor-confirmed-as-worlds-oldest-man-at-112|title=Israeli Holocaust survivor confirmed as world's oldest man at 112|work=[[The Times of Israel]]|date=11 March 2016|accessdate=11 March 2016}}</ref>

==Oldest living man==
[[File:Israel Kristal Certificate 1918.jpeg|thumb|200px|Kristal's name and date of birth on a 1918 record]]
Following the death of 110-year-old [[Alice Herz-Sommer]] in [[London]] on 23 February 2014, Kristal became recognized as the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor (though he was actually a few months older than she was).<ref name=haaretz1/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/.premium-1.576348|title=Israeli Confectioner, 110, Inherits Title of World's Oldest Holocaust Survivor|work=Haaretz|date=February 25, 2014|access-date=February 2, 2016}}</ref> He became the world's oldest living man on 18 January 2016, after the death of Japanese supercentenarian [[Yasutaro Koide]].{{efn|name=Yasutaro Koide}}<ref name="Guinness"/>

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On 11 March 2016, Kristal was officially recognized as the world's oldest man by ''[[Guinness World Records]]''. His status was verified after documents confirming his age were uncovered in Poland (formerly, the family's oldest document was from his wedding at age 25, but Guinness regulations require documentation from the first 20 years of a person's life to claim the record; the newly found documents were discovered by Jewish Records Indexing – Poland).<ref name="Guinness">{{cite news|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/3/guinness-world-records-announces-holocaust-survivor-israel-kristal-as-worlds-old|title=Guinness World Records announces Holocaust survivor Israel Kristal as world's oldest living man|work=[[Guinness World Records]]|author= Lynch, Kevin|date=March 11, 2016|access-date=February 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jri-poland.org|title=Jewish Records Indexing – Poland|access-date=March 11, 2016}}</ref><ref name=timesofisrael>{{cite news |last=Cortellessa |first=Eric|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-holocaust-survivor-confirmed-as-worlds-oldest-man-at-112|title=Israeli Holocaust survivor confirmed as world's oldest man at 112|work=The Times of Israel|date=March 11, 2016|access-date=August 12, 2017}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of oldest people by country]]
*[[List of the oldest people by country]]
*[[List of Polish supercentenarians]]
*[[List of the verified oldest people]]

*[[List of the verified oldest men]]
==Notes==
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==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
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== External links ==
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Latest revision as of 13:26, 12 December 2024

Yisrael Kristal
ישראל קרישטל
Kristal in 2016
Born
Izrael Icek Kryształ

(1903-09-15)15 September 1903
Maleniec, Końskie County, Poland, Russian Empire
Died(2017-08-11)11 August 2017
(aged 113 years, 330 days)
Haifa, Israel
Nationality
  • Polish
  • Israeli
Known forOldest living man
(18 January 2016 – 11 August 2017)
Oldest survivor of the Holocaust
Spouse
Chaja Feige Frucht
​
​
(m. 1928; died 1942)​
Batsheva Kristal
​
​
(m. 1947; died 1993)​
Children4

Yisrael Kristal (or Israel Kristal;[1][2] born Izrael Icek Kryształ; Hebrew: ישראל קרישטל; 15 September 1903 – 11 August 2017) was a Polish-Israeli supercentenarian recognized in 2014 as the oldest living Holocaust survivor. After the death of Yasutaro Koide, of Japan, on 18 January 2016,[a] he was also recognized as the oldest living man.

Born in 1903 to religious parents in Maleniec, near Żarnów, then part of Poland of the Russian Empire, Kristal remained religiously observant all his life.[3][4]

A confectioner by profession, he experienced World War I as an early teen, and World War II as an adult. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to Israel.

Early life

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Yisrael Kristal in Poland 1931, aged 28

Kristal was born to a religious Jewish family in Maleniec, Końskie County, near Żarnów, then part of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire, on 15 September 1903. His father was a Torah scholar who ensured his son had a religious education, and Kristal would remain religiously observant all his life. He attended a cheder at age three, where he studied Judaism and Hebrew. He learned the Hebrew Bible at four and the Mishnah at six. In a 2012 interview, he recalled his father waking him at five in the morning to begin his religious instruction.[5]

His mother died in 1913 when he was ten years old. After World War I broke out in 1914, he saw Kaiser Franz Joseph in person when the monarch rode through his town in a car, and recalled sweets being thrown as he passed. His father was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army, was taken prisoner and died soon after the war.[6][7] Meanwhile, Kristal moved in with his uncles.

In 1920, at age 17, he moved to Łódź. After briefly laboring as a metalworker, he opened a candy store with an uncle. While initially working as a physical laborer, he later became a renowned expert candy-maker. He married Chaja Feige Frucht[8] in 1928, and they had two children.[6][7][9]

Holocaust survival

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In 1940, after the Germans had taken over Poland during World War II, Kristal continued to manufacture candy, at times secretly and at other times with the encouragement of the heads of the ghetto, among them head of the Łódź Ghetto Judenrat Chaim Rumkowski. His two children died in the ghetto, while Kristal and his wife were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp during the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944.[contradictory]

Kristal's wife was murdered in Auschwitz; he worked as a forced laborer and survived. When the camp was liberated by the Red Army, Kristal weighed 82 pounds (37 kg).[7] He was taken to the hospital, where he returned to his profession and made candies for Soviet soldiers, before returning to Łódź, where he rebuilt his destroyed candy shop and met his second wife, Batsheva. They married in 1947. The couple had a son, Chaim, who was born in Poland, and a daughter, Shula, who was born in Israel.[6]

Life in Israel

[edit]

In 1950, the family immigrated to Israel on the ship Komemiyut and settled in Haifa. He initially worked at the Palata candy factory, where he was considered an expert and taught the owners to make an entire production line of sweets. He then became self-employed, making boutique sweets at home and selling them at a Haifa kiosk. Among the sweets he produced were tiny liquor bottles made of chocolate wrapped in colored foil, jam made from carob, and chocolate-covered orange peels. In 1952, he began manufacturing his candies at the Sar and Kristal Factory on Shivat Zion Street. After the factory closed in 1970, he returned to making his candies at home before retiring.[6]

Kristal had nine grandchildren. He also had great-grandchildren, but his family preferred not to state his exact number of descendants for fear of the "evil eye".[5][6]

Having been unable to do so at the age of 13 due to World War I, Kristal celebrated his bar mitzvah a century later, in September 2016, at the age of 113.[10][11] Kristal died at his home in Haifa on 11 August 2017, at age 113 years, 10 months.[12]

Oldest living man

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Kristal's name and date of birth on a 1918 record

Following the death of 110-year-old Alice Herz-Sommer in London on 23 February 2014, Kristal became recognized as the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor (though he was actually a few months older than she was).[5][13] He became the world's oldest living man on 18 January 2016, after the death of Japanese supercentenarian Yasutaro Koide.[a][14]

On 11 March 2016, Kristal was officially recognized as the world's oldest man by Guinness World Records. His status was verified after documents confirming his age were uncovered in Poland (formerly, the family's oldest document was from his wedding at age 25, but Guinness regulations require documentation from the first 20 years of a person's life to claim the record; the newly found documents were discovered by Jewish Records Indexing – Poland).[14][15][16]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b Yasutaro Koide died on 19 January 2016 12:17 a.m. JST. However, in Israel, where Kristal lived, the date was still 18 January 2016 (IST).

References

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  1. ^ Waxman, Olivia B. (15–16 September 2016). "The World's Oldest Man Was Born 113 Years Ago. Here's What Else Happened Then". Time. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  2. ^ Gerontology Research Group (GRG)
  3. ^ Heller, Aron (5 October 2016). "World's oldest man marks bar mitzvah, 100 years late". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  4. ^ "A devout Jew, he has wrapped phylacteries daily for the past century." That's from Bar Mitzvah age until his passing.
  5. ^ a b c Aderet, Ofer (24 January 2016). "Israeli Auschwitz Survivor Could Be Oldest Man in the World". Haaretz. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Israeli Confectioner, 110, Inherits Title of World's Oldest Holocaust Survivor". Haaretz. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  7. ^ a b c Bilefsky, Dan (6 October 2016). "World's Oldest Man, After Century Wait, Celebrates Bar Mitzvah at Last". The New York Times.
  8. ^ Jordan Kutzik (30 March 2016). "Family, Faith, Food and Other Keys to Becoming the World's Oldest Man". Forward. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  9. ^ Ed Adamczyk (2 February 2016). "112-year-old Yisrael Kristal believed to be world's oldest man". UPI. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  10. ^ "World's oldest man, Yisrael Kristal, 113, to hold bar mitzvah". BBC News. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  11. ^ "World's oldest man marks bar mitzvah, 100 years late". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  12. ^ "World's oldest man, an Israeli Holocaust survivor, dies at 113". The Times of Israel. 12 August 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  13. ^ "Israeli Confectioner, 110, Inherits Title of World's Oldest Holocaust Survivor". Haaretz. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  14. ^ a b Lynch, Kevin (11 March 2016). "Guinness World Records announces Holocaust survivor Israel Kristal as world's oldest living man". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  15. ^ "Jewish Records Indexing – Poland". Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  16. ^ Cortellessa, Eric (11 March 2016). "Israeli Holocaust survivor confirmed as world's oldest man at 112". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
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