Dan Ben-David, a public policy professor at Tel Aviv University, will announce on Monday that he is joining the Kadima Party headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. An American immigrant, Ben-David intended to run for the Labor list but decided against it in mid-December because he "did not want to help [Labor chairman Amir] Peretz damage the economy." A Kadima spokesman said on Monday that several other candidates would be joining the party during the day.function initServerVars() { _headup.clientHost = 'http://newstopics.jpost.com'; _headup.termsFromServer = 0; _headup.annotatedTerms = 0; _headup.widgetMode = 'snippet'; _headup.snippetButtonStyle = 'banner'; _headup.blackListedUrl = false; } <!-- Terms Count: 0 TTL: 4 Terms From Server: DateTime: 6/12/2011 1:58:35 AM -->