The world’s oldest man is to celebrate his barmitzvah in Israel later this month.

Yisrael Kristal, who celebrates his 113th birthday on Thursday, missed his barmitzvah growing up in Poland because of World War One.

Mr Kristal’s daughter, Shulimath Kristal Kuperstoch, told the DPA news agency that 100 family members will attend the ceremony in Haifa where he lives.

She said: “We will bless him, we will dance with him, we will be happy.”

Mr Kristal was recognised as the world’s oldest man in March.

He explained his longevity by saying: “I believe that everything is determined from above and we shall never
know the reasons why. There have been smarter, stronger and better-looking men than me who are no longer alive.

“All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost.”.

Mr Kristal, who worked in the confectionary business was born on Sept 15, 1903, in the town of Zarnow, Poland.

He moved to Lodz in 1920 and lost two children when the Nazis forced the city’s Jews into a ghetto.

Mr Kristal continued running the family business, but in 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz, where his wife was killed.

He remarried and moved to Haifa in 1950 with his second wife and their son.