Interesting Psak: Sheitels Avoda Zara

I am not sure why this has come up now after a long period of quiet on this issue. 
In his recent Motzash shiur, Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchak Yosef paskened that sheitels, wigs, today come almost entirely from avoda zara and are therefore prohibited from being used by women as a hair covering.
Rav Yosef says he checked the issue out in various ways and almost all the hair used for wigs today definitely comes from avoda zara. Rav Yosef dislikes that Rav Mordechai Gross retracted his initial disapproval and eventually said that wigs are fine. People that buy a wig and bring it home should not ask why they have problems in the home - they have problems because they brought avoda zara into the house. Rav Gross caused a big problem with his retraction.
According to Rav Yosef, people turned it into a hashkafic issue - Mizrochniks wear tichels and Charedim have to wear sheitels - but that is idiocy.source: Kikar
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