She is no Beta.

The weather is starting to cool down, and I am anticipating a rather stormy winter. An adequate punishment for leaving for two years, and not having to deal with it. Bad weather seems to follow me like a shadow. My classes are quite interesting, although stressful and I feel overwhelmed by the amount of information that I must absorb to do tests and exams well. My nerves usually get the better of me during exams and I persistently doubt myself in the middle and oft go with the second answer/wrong one. But my trials and tribulations do not come close to this historical figure of the day.

Queen Gudit/Judith of Damot (a region of modern Ethiopia)

There is no certainty about her dates of birth and death, but she was to be queen of Ethiopia at around 960 CE. The information about her have been largely gathered through oral tradition of story telling. 
It is believed that Judith was a Beta Israel (an African Jewish person) or  even possibly pagan Hebraic. Though, most scholars believe that she was an African Jewish woman.

Either way, she was believed to have seized the capital city/throne of Axum and proclaimed herself the Queen, and sought to end Christianity in her land. Therefore, many Christian churches, monasteries and lives in the process. Due to her uprisings, Beta Israel enjoyed many years of prosperity and independent rule from neighboring Christian Kingdoms. 

A fascinating thing about Ethiopian Jews is that there were the most isolated Jewish diaspora, and therefore have many different traditions from a lot of other Jewish communities. There are many different theories as to how there came to be a major Jewish community in Ethiopia, there is a belief that the Agau tribe converted to Judaism early on, or Yemeni Jews traveled to Ethiopia and intermarried with the Agau tribe in the First Temple Period. So the community has been in Ethiopia for over 2400 years, for many reasons there are few left in Ethiopia and many now live in Israel citing the Law of Return.