Chaim Goldberg, who was the world’s oldest living Jew, passed away on Sunday night at the age of 106 from complications of the coronavirus. He was a resident of Vladivostok, a city in eastern Russia.
Goldberg was also one of the oldest living veterans of the Second World War, having driven a tank in the Russian army and fought against the Nazis.
In recent years, Goldberg participated in a number of events in the Chabad synagogue in Vladivostok, organized by the city’s rabbi, Chabad emissary Harav Shimon Varakin.