World’s oldest man celebrates Bar Mitzvah

The world’s oldest man, Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, now lives in Haifa. Due to World War 1, he was unable to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah in Poland, so a few years late…100 years late… he was called up to read the Torah for his delayed Bar Mitzvah – on his 113th birthday.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217940

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4855338,00.html

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