Isaac Saba Raffoul was a Mexican businessman of Syrian Jewish descent; his father emigrated from Aleppo, Syria to Veracruz, Mexico where he started a rag business which the family built on. Isaac Saba Raffoul was one of the wealthiest persons in the world according to Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $2.1 billion. He had been married to wife Rebecca for over 40 years and had three sons: Moises, Manuel and Alberto.