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Silvio Santos

Abravanel was the son of a Sephardic Jew born in the Ottoman Empire. His father, Alberto Abravanel, was born in 1897 in Thessalonica, Greece, while his mother, Rebecca Caro, was born in 1905 in Smyrna, Turkey. Both died in Rio de Janeiro (in 1975 and 1988, respectively) and are buried together in Rio de Janeiro’s Cajamarca Jewish Cemetery. On his published side, Silvio Santos was a descendant of Isaac Abravanel.

Senor Abravanel, known professionally as Silvio Santos, was a Brazilian media mogul and television host. He owned stakes that included SBT, the country’s second-largest television network. His net worth in 2020 was US$3.2 billion.

He was the host of the second longest-running Brazilian program: Programa Silvio Santos, broadcast since 1963. He was also the only celebrity in the country to be included in the list of billionaires by Forbes magazine. The magazine also stated that “There is no one more famous in Brazil than Silvio Santos.”

Santos died of H1N1 on August 17, 2024. The presenter was admitted to the Albert Einstein Israeli Hospital at the beginning of August.