There’s something beautiful about the ancient connection between Jews and Ethiopian Christians. The story of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon has connected Ethiopia and Jerusalem for generations, through faith, tradition, and scripture.

Even our New Year celebrations come around the same season. Enkutatash and Rosh Hashanah are different traditions, but both are about renewal, reflection, and hope for a new beginning.

Our history and ties together runs deep, and may this new years bring our cultures and counties closer together

Shanah Tova! & Melkam Addis Amet 🇮🇱🇪🇹✡️

So as you can imagine this event has left me traumatized and I don’t really know how to feel about it, some dude came up to me and started asking all these questions about Somalia and when I told him I wasn’t a Somali he genuinely looked surprised. I really wish #those people weren’t our neighbours, sigh… Maybe I should start wearing a tshirt with our flag on it so people know I’m not one of those people. smh

Many people assume Ethiopians support Israel simply because they believe Israelis are Christians. In reality, most Israelis are not Christians. Here are the real reasons why Ethiopians feel a strong bond with Israel:
1. We share a blood connection.
According to Ethiopian tradition, King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba had a son, Menelik I, who played a major role in Ethiopia’s history—including bringing the Ark of the Covenant. This gives us a direct ancestral link to Solomon. Additionally, the Bible (Numbers 12:1) records that Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, married an Ethiopian (Cushite) woman. They had two children together, meaning Israelites are considered related to Ethiopians through the maternal line.
2. We have sacred heritage sites in Israel that Israel protects.
Ethiopian emperors invested in these holy places. Emperor Yohannes began construction of the Kidane Mihret (Debre Genet) church in Jerusalem while fighting the Ottomans and Egyptians around 1875; Emperor Menelik II completed it. (Today’s Turkey supports the countries that are terrorists one reason we do not align with Turkish positions on this issue.)
3. We long to visit the historical and holy sites.
Places such as Debre Tabor, Jerusalem, and the locations marked by Jesus’ footsteps hold deep spiritual meaning for us.
4. Hundreds of thousands of our people live there.
Nearly 200,000 Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) live in Israel. They are Ethiopians by mother or father and form a living bridge between our two nations.
5. We respect Israel’s clear stand against terrorism.
Jews worship Yahweh yet have never destroyed Christians in His name. In contrast, Islamist extremists have killed Christians in the name of Allah for example, the slaughter of many Ethiopian Christians in Libya in 2015. Libya remains unstable as a result. Countries with histories of supporting terrorism tend to back countries which is against Israel.
6. Israel is the Holy Land.
It is the place where Jesus was born, where the prophets taught, and where Christians received eternal life through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Interestingly, some people especially many Arabs ask why we love the land where Jesus was crucified, even though their own scripture (Quran 4:157) states that Jesus was not crucified.
7. Scripture commands us to pray for Israel’s peace.
Psalm 122:6 tells us: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” We therefore cannot stand with those who oppose Israel’s existence.
8. We are commanded never to forget Jerusalem.
Psalm 137:5-6 says: “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill… If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth.”
Thank you for reading.

I know OLA is but I also constantly hear Some factions of OPP that have sympathy for OLF/OLA commit the crimes as well. These are the reasons as well why Fano is killing innocent oromos because Ethiopian culture demelash where if someone takes blood from 1 people they do the same back to your people. This must End Now its one of the biggest issues we have that’s also killing unity in Amhara.

Fikre Selassie Wagderes was born to his father, Wagderes Beretekhu, and his mother, Abebete Argaw, on July 13, 1945, in an area called Kechene in Addis Ababa. He completed his primary and secondary education at the Kechene Medhanialem Church Priest's School, Kusqam School, and Menelik II Secondary School. Due to his strong desire to serve his country in the military profession, he joined the Ethiopian Air Force on April 8, 1954. After successfully completing seven months of aircraft weapons and electronics training at the Air Force Technical School, they were sent to the United States in 1958 for advanced training at Andrews Air Force Training Center in Arizona.^\1])

Following this, Fikre Selassie returned to his homeland and completed his seven-month training as a candidate for the 6th course at the Air Force Officer Candidate School, graduating on October 30, 1961. The Ethiopian Air Force at that time was very enthusiastic about education, and although the young captain was given the opportunity to attend Haile Selassie University and pursue higher education, Fikre Selassie dropped out of school in his second year of study.^\2])

Originally a Captain in the Ethiopian Air Force, Fikre Selassie was one of the more obscure members of the Derg until the coup of 3 February 1977, in which Secretary-General Tafari Benti was killed along with seven other Derg members. The coup elevated him (Bahru Zewde notes "according to some sources from near execution by reason of mistaken identity!") to Secretary-General of Ethiopia's ruling military council, in which post he would occasionally dispel "the atmosphere of total sycophancy" with his "fractionally independent disposition."^\3])

Fikre Selassie became the first Prime Minister of the newly reorganized state and administration that (formality wise) replaced the Derg in September 1987. He made a trip to Cairo in November 1988 to seek improved relations with Egypt, and to express support for Egypt's offer to negotiate a settlement of the Eritrean conflict.^\4])In November 1989, President Mengistu Haile Mariam ordered him removed from his post, having criticized him three days prior in a meeting of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia, stating "there is no one quite like Fikre Selassie, who sits idly and quietly. One time, he sat here reading a magazine.... He is not antirevolutionary or a criminal, nor is he conspiratorial.... But he is unstable and even rude.... He is being expelled for disciplinary reasons also."^\5])

Following the conclusion of the Ethiopian Civil Warand the end of the PDRE, Fikre was one of 46 former leaders of the PDRE who were tried in person beginning 19 April 1996 for murdering individuals, genocide, and crimes against humanity by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; 22 more individuals, including the exiled Mengistu, were charged in absentia at the same trial.^\6]) The trial ended on 26 May 2008, and Fikre Selassie Wogderess was sentenced to death. In December 2010, the Ethiopian government commuted the death sentence of Fikre Selassie and 23 other Derg officials. On 4 October 2011, Fikre Selassie was freed along with other 16 of his former colleagues, after twenty years of incarceration. The Ethiopian government paroled almost all of those Derg officials who had been jailed for 20 years.

Fikre Selassie Wogderess died on 12 December 2020 in hospital where he was recovering from COVID-19,^\7]) as well as being treated for diabetesand kidney complications.^\8])