Kafr Yasif
Karayanni is a Palestinian-Arab, was born to a Christian Greek-Orthodox family in Kafr Yasif, a village in the Western Galilee in Israel. He is married to Inas, a computer analyst, and the father of three children. He resides today in Neve Shalom – Wahat el-Salam, a joint Jewish-Arab village located midway between Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem.