Yisrael Kristal
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September, 2016
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15 September 1903 (age 113 years, 184 days) Maleniec, Końskie County, Congress Poland |
| Residence | Haifa, Israel |
| Nationality | Israel |
| Known for |
Oldest living man (since 18 January 2016) |
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Yisrael Kristal or Israel Kristal (born 15 September 1903) is a Polish-born Israeli supercentenarian and recognized as the oldest living man in the world, aged 113 years, 184 days. Kristal was born to Jewish parents in Poland and had a religious upbringing. A confectioner by profession, he experienced World War I as a child, and World War II as an adult. After surviving the Holocaust, he immigrated to Israel.
During World War II he was confined by the Nazi regime to a Jewish ghetto; his children died in the ghetto, but he and his wife were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Kristal survived the Holocaust, but his wife did not. He remarried shortly after the War and, in 1950, emigrated to Israel with his second wife Batsheva, also a survivor of the Holocaust, and their infant child. Kristal became the world's oldest recognized Holocaust survivor in 2014 and the world's oldest man in 2016.
Kristal was born to a religious Jewish family in Maleniec, Końskie County near Żarnów, then part of the Congress Kingdom of Poland 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. 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.
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