TIMES OF ISRAEL
World’s oldest man marks bar mitzvah, 100 years late
by Aron Heller
October 5, 2016

The world’s oldest man has finally celebrated his bar mitzvah — a hundred years later than usual. Yisrael Kristal, 113, has lived through both World Wars and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. Earlier this year, Guinness World Records awarded him a certificate as the world’s oldest man. But there was a ceremony that the supercentenarian observant Jew longed for even more. Born in Poland in 1903, Kristal missed his bar mitzvah — the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony celebrated when a boy turns 13 — because of World War I. READ MORE