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Guinness World Records

January 26, 2026, 4:48 pm
Guinness lifts ban on Israeli record attempts as 2,000 kidney donors break record in Jerusalem
The Matnat Chaim charity brought together donors at an event addressed by Israel's president
By Daniel Sugarman
Uri Geller with his record-breaking bent spoon
December 4, 2025, 1:40 pm
Uri Geller: Guinness World Records’ Israel decision is more twisted than my spoons
Uri Geller, who holds a Guinness World Record himself, writes about the 'disgraceful' decision from the organisation
By Uri Geller
Guinness Museum logo and marquee. The Guinness Museum is an attraction on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
December 3, 2025, 1:33 pm
World records for everyone? Not in Israel, says Guinness
No record submissions from Israel or the "Palestinian territories" are being considered unless they come from a "UN Agency"
By Daniel Sugarman and Lewis Nelson
Screenshot from the school's video, showing them creating the world's largest menorah!
May 10, 2019, 1:10 pm
Australian school makes world’s largest human menorah!
A total of 1,048 students and staff from Bialik College in Melbourne gathered to form the shape of the emblem of the State of Israel on Thursday.
By JTA
Yisrael Kristal
August 11, 2017, 5:52 pm
World’s oldest man and Auschwitz survivor, Yisrael Kristal, dies aged 113
Polish-born Yisrael Kristal of Haifa passes away a month before his 114th birthday
By JTA
Yisrael Kristal
October 5, 2016, 12:30 pm
World’s oldest man celebrates barmitzvah a century late
Holocaust survivor and certified 'World's Oldest Man' Israel Kristal celebrated his coming of age after a 100-year wait
Yisrael Kristal
September 15, 2016, 10:01 am
World’s oldest man, a Shoah survivor, to celebrate barmitzvah
113-year old Yisrael Kristal will mark his coming of age a little later than most, after he missed it initially due to World War One
By Jewish News Reporter and JTA
Marco Frigatti, Head of Records for Guinness World Records, presented Israel Kristal his certificate of achievement for Oldest living man on 11th March 2016, Haifa, Israel. Picture credit: Dvir Rosen/Guinness World Records
March 11, 2016, 1:38 pm
Israeli Holocaust survivor becomes oldest living man
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