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Yisrael Kristal, world's oldest man and Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

Israeli media are reporting that the world's oldest man, who lived through both world wars and survived the Holocaust, has died a month short of his 114th birthday.

'He always saw only light and good in everything,' daughter says

Yisrael Kristal is seen at his home in the Israeli city of Haifa on Jan. 21, 2016. Kristal was born in Poland in 1903 and, after the Second World War, moved to Israel, where he built a confectionary business. (Shula Kuperstoch/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli media are reporting that the world's oldest man, who lived through both world wars and survived the Holocaust, has died a month short of his 114th birthday.

Ynet on Saturday quoted Israel Kristal's daughter as saying her father died Friday. Shula Kupershtuch says: "He always saw only light and good in everything."

Guinness World Records awarded Kristal a certificate as the world's oldest man last year.

Kristal was born in Poland in 1903.

During the Second World Warhe was sent to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. His first wife and two children were killed in the Holocaust.

Kristal survived the war the only survivor of his large Jewish family.

He remarried and moved to Israel in 1950, where he built a family and a confectionary business.