The world’s oldest man, the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust, has died at the age of 113

Polish-born Yisrael Kristal died on Friday, a month before he was due to turn 114, Israeli media reported

Mr. Kristal, who lived in Haifa, Israel, hit the headlines last year after deciding to celebrate his bar mitzvah a century late. The original celebration had not taken place because World War One broke out. Mr Kristal was born in the village of Zarnow, about 90 miles (146km) southwest of Warsaw, in 1903.

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