Meet Israel Kristal, the oldest living man in the world

Israel Kristal, the oldest man in the world
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Guinness World Records declared Israel Kristal, an Auschwitz survivor, the oldest living man in the world Friday. He is 112 years and 179 days old, as of Saturday.

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men than me who are no longer alive," the Israel resident said. "All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost."

Kristal isn't the oldest living person in the world, The New York Times reports. That honor belongs to an American woman named Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 250 days old.

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