113-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Finally Has Bar Mitzvah!

Yisrael Kristal was born in Poland in 1903. After a few world wars delayed his plans, he’s finally scheduled to “become a man” with a Bar Mitzvah.

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00:00 Think he'll regret spending all of his bar mitzvah money on a Super Nintendo.

00:04 113 year old Yisrael Kristall is finally getting his bar mitzvah.

00:09 Kristall was born in 1903 in Poland, and just the havoc of World War I prevented him from having his bar mitzvah in 1916.

00:17 He also lived for a time in the Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II.

00:21 And then, you know, life happened for 70 years, but he's finally gonna become a man.

00:25 Contrary to some reports, Kristall is not the world's oldest person. He's the world's oldest man, but there are 20 other women older than him.

00:32 You ain't special.

00:34 The oldest person in the world right now is Emma Murano.

00:37 She's 116 years old, and according to Wikipedia, she's the last verified living person to have been born in the 1800s.

00:44 In response to Kristall's bar mitzvah, President Obama sent congratulations,

00:48 and Donald Trump said Jewish food smells funny and 6 million people isn't really that much.

00:53 I wouldn't doubt that he would say something like that, okay?

00:56 It's a joke, but like it could not be.

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