A Palestinian national is on his way to be placed on the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest living man in the world. Committees concerned in the interior and health ministries of the Gaza government have ratified the birthday of Haj Rajab Mohamed Yusuf Al-Tom after all his documents were destroyed in an Israeli raid on his house. Al-Tom is 125 years old and has 300 grandsons. He has lived under five successive governments since the Ottoman empire followed by the British Mandate. He was born on 1/1/1889