''Silvio Santos was the greatest personality in the history of Brazilian television, and one of the country's greatest communicators,'' President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrote on X. ''His departure ...

(JTA) — RIO DE JANEIRO — Silvio Santos, a son of Sephardic Jewish immigrants who rose from working-class roots to become one of Brazil’s wealthiest men and a popular television personality, died Aug.